Thursday, November 21, 2019
Today's Gift
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration. Carlos Ghosn
Work Roles
How easy it is to dive into roles at work. How easy it is to place other people in roles. Sometimes, this is necessary, appropriate, and expedient.
But we can also let our self shine through our role.
There is joy in giving our gift of skill at work, at giving ourselves to the task at hand so thoroughly that we experience an intimate relationship with our work. There is joy when we create or accomplish a task and can say, “Well done!”
There is also joy when we are our self at work, and when we discover and appreciate those around us.
The most unpleasant, mundane task can be breezed through when we stop thinking of ourselves as a robot and allow ourselves to be a person.
Those around us will respond warmly when we treat them as individuals and not job defined roles.
This does not mean we need to become inappropriately entangled with others. It means that, whether we are an employer or an employee, when people are allowed to be people who perform tasks instead of task performers, we are happier and more content people.
Today, I will let myself shine through my task at work. I will try to see others and let them shine through too—instead of looking only at their tasks. Higher Power, help me be open to the beauty of others and myself at work. Help me maintain healthy relationships with people at work.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
This quagmire of troubles we men were caught in came, in part, from our best efforts to be self-sufficient. The harder we worked to provide our own cures, to control others in our lives, or to control ourselves, the more we fixed our attention upon ourselves. We could not see that the answers we were using were actually part of the problem, not the solution.
Even today we may be partially caught in the folly of this thinking. Whenever we think we see our problems and the answers clearly but don't open our incomplete selves to the wisdom of others, we are in danger of intensifying our self-focus. When we have a pattern of telling our fellow members the completed stories of our pain only when our pain has passed, we are maintaining our self-centered system. We can't lift ourselves out of our self-centeredness. We can only turn it over to our Higher Power and allow ourselves to be released.
Action for the Day: Today I will be grateful for the healing, which comes when I stop being so self-centered in my efforts.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
More and more we became interested in seeing what we could
contribute to life. As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed
peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully,
as we became conscious of our Higher Power's presence, we began to lose our
fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter. We were reborn.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 63
Thought to Ponder
The power within me is far greater than any fear before me.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H O P E = Hang On! Peace Exists
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Keep at it
by Ralph Marston
You won’t always get it right on the first attempt, or the fourth, or the fifth. But that’s no reason to give up.
Re-affirm your commitment, and keep at it. Learn from what didn’t work, and transform that knowledge into a strategy that does work.
Achievement is not easy, not necessarily simple, not always straightforward. Yet you can keep at it, and you can figure it out.
If it’s important to you, then it’s worth your effort, and your persistence. Keep at it, and draw upon the strength, the wisdom, the skills you’ve spent your life building.
The easy problems were solved a long time ago. You’re fortunate to be faced with the more stubborn challenges that lead to the most valuable rewards.
This is your great opportunity to keep at it. Your best work is ready to be done, and your highest success waiting to be claimed.
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