Thursday, April 2, 2020
Today's Gift
If necessity is the mother of invention, then imagination is the father of creative endeavor. --Victor La Cerva, MD
It is critically important not to let our inner editor get ahead of our inner artist. So many of us have developed patterns of self-criticism and judgment that can quash our creative imagination before it even begins to find its flow. We know how destructive such tendencies can be and how they have sometimes thwarted our attempts at moving forward.
Imagination exercises our intelligence. It is a vast playground that is the foundation of all innovation and invention. It is where additional possibilities are allowed to incubate, to marinate in our mind, to arise from subterranean and unconscious outposts we don’t normally visit.
What can we imagine for ourselves? What lives might we live that are now just flights of fancy, preludes to what might be created? Think about what singing or poetry does to words. We can do that to our own destiny—we just have to start by conceiving it. Those who most inspire us to imagine ourselves at our best are often those who have been through the fire and survived bleak circumstances. We can call upon them to help our inner artist emerge.
I use my imagination to envision a spectacular future for myself.
From the book Cornerstones© 2018
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
In recovery, we give up trying to be perfect. We give up trying to know
everything. We work at coming to know and accept our short-comings. In
Step Four and Five, we look at our good points and our bad points. In Step
Six, we become ready to have our Higher Power remove our "defects of
character." Then in Step Seven we ask our Higher Power to remove our
"shortcomings."
Recovery is about coming to accept that we're not prefect. We admit that
trying to be perfect got in the way of being useful to ourselves, our
Higher Power, and those around us. Pretending to be prefect doesn't allow
us to be real. It's also boring and no fun---you never get to mess up.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, You will let me know what I need to know. Allow me to claim my mistakes and shortcomings.
Action for the Day: I will work at being okay today. Not prefect, just okay.
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
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost
selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery.
The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be,
has to be smashed. We alcoholics are men and women who
have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no
real alcoholic ever recovers control.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30
Thought to Ponder
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A B C = Accept, Begin, Continue
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
Timely achievements
by Ralph Marston
What you can do today, you may not be able to do tomorrow. You must seize opportunity when it arrives, so you’re not chasing it after it departs.
You can’t know exactly what tomorrow will bring, but you do know it will be different than today. So the time to do what you can do today, is today.
None of your options are perfect, but at least you have access to them. That won’t always be the case.
Right now you can choose the best of those options. Right now you can work to transform them into lasting achievement.
Don’t just sit around manufacturing regret. Get up, get to work, and produce new value.
Give yourself the extreme satisfaction of knowing you’ve done all you could do. And give the world the benefit of your timely and meaningful achievements.
What you can do today, you may not be able to do tomorrow. You must seize opportunity when it arrives, so you’re not chasing it after it departs.
You can’t know exactly what tomorrow will bring, but you do know it will be different than today. So the time to do what you can do today, is today.
None of your options are perfect, but at least you have access to them. That won’t always be the case.
Right now you can choose the best of those options. Right now you can work to transform them into lasting achievement.
Don’t just sit around manufacturing regret. Get up, get to work, and produce new value.
Give yourself the extreme satisfaction of knowing you’ve done all you could do. And give the world the benefit of your timely and meaningful achievements.
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