Thursday, August 20, 2020
Today's Gift
Happiness in the older years of life, like happiness in every year of life, is a matter of choice—your choice for yourself. ~Harold Azine
We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on. Choosing behavior that encourages happiness is often as easy as any other choice, and the rewards are certainly greater than when we act out of fear or resentment. Events we had expected to be troubling, and relationships where we had predicted conflict, are more likely to turn out surprisingly smooth when we come to them with a happy attitude. We will feel better about ourselves when we are able to respond to other people with encouragement and hope.
We complicate our life unnecessarily when we choose to act out of meanness, self-centeredness, or self-pity. Actions arising from negative attitudes eventually lower our self-esteem and block our connection to the Universe. Happiness is often as simple as making the decision to take charge of who we are now, as we rely on Universe's plan for us.
I will choose happiness today as I rely on Universe's plan for me.
From the book In God's Care, Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
********************************Twenty-Four Hours a DayKeep It Simple
Acceptance of those conditions that at times plague us changes not only the conditions but, in the process, ourselves. Perhaps this latter change is the more crucial. As each changes, as we all change into more accepting women, life's struggles ease. When we accept all the circumstances that we can't control, we are more peaceful. Smiles more easily fill us up.
It's almost as though life's eternal lesson is acceptance, and with it comes life's eternal blessings.
Action for the Day: Every day offers me many opportunities to grow in acceptance and thus blessings. I can accept any condition today and understand it as an opportunity to take another step toward serenity, eternal and whole.
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
Another Excuse
We also clutch at another wonderful excuse for avoiding an inventory.
Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior
of other people—people who really need a moral inventory. We firmly
believe that if only they'd treat us better, we'd be all right. Therefore we
think our indignation is justified and reasonable—that our resentments
are the "right kind." We aren't the guilty ones. They are!
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) pp. 45 - 46
Thought to Ponder
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
AA-related 'Alconym'
D E N I A L = Don't Even Notice It's A Lie
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Make more options***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
When all your options have been exhausted, make more options. There’s always something else you can do to keep going.
When the obvious solutions have failed, get more creative. You owe it to yourself, to the situation, to life, to find a way to make it work.
If what has always worked no longer works, experiment, adjust, adapt, learn. Get yourself curious enough and persistent enough to figure out what will get the job done.
A single attempt is merely an attempt, not a result. To solve the problem, to reach the goal, continue your efforts until they result in the success you seek.
You never have to give up. You always have the option to give more.
Exercise that option, with faith in your abilities and the determination to put those abilities to full use. Make more options, keep going, and make it happen.
When all your options have been exhausted, make more options. There’s always something else you can do to keep going.
When the obvious solutions have failed, get more creative. You owe it to yourself, to the situation, to life, to find a way to make it work.
If what has always worked no longer works, experiment, adjust, adapt, learn. Get yourself curious enough and persistent enough to figure out what will get the job done.
A single attempt is merely an attempt, not a result. To solve the problem, to reach the goal, continue your efforts until they result in the success you seek.
You never have to give up. You always have the option to give more.
Exercise that option, with faith in your abilities and the determination to put those abilities to full use. Make more options, keep going, and make it happen.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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