The Work-In: Daily Motivation 1-1-2021

  Friday, January 1, 2021
Today's Gift

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. --C.S. Lewis

The New Year

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level.

Goals give our life direction.

What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?

What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?

Remember, we aren't controlling others with our goals - we are trying to give direction to our life.

What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?

What would you like to see happen inside and around you?

Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.

Certainly, things happen that are out of our control. Sometimes, these events are pleasant surprises; sometimes, they are of another nature. But they are all part of the chapter that will be this year in our life and will lead us forward in the story.

The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today, I will remember that there is a powerful force motivated by writing down goals. I will do that now, for the year to come, and regularly as needed. I will do it not to control but to do my part in living my life.

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

Walk In Dry Places

A year to grow.

Growth.
This new year can be a time of growth in sobriety. While we have no crystal ball that tells us what luck and fortune the year will bring, we do have a program that gives us the power to make the best of this year, to grow in sobriety. We can make progress in overcoming resentment and selfishness, we can help others in their search for happy sobriety, and we can make better use of our talents and opportunities.

We can live sober, and we also can find happiness and true self-esteem in sobriety. In our drinking, a desperate search for happiness and self-esteem compelled us to drink, but we could never find our happy destiny in the bottle. No matter what came to us, things had a way of turning sour as we continued to drink and to take other harmful substances.

In our new life, we have good reason to feel confident and optimistic. We have friends who understand us; we have sponsors who will share with us their own experience and hope. We have a Higher Power who is, as the poet Tennyson said, "closer to us than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." We face nothing alone, and in the new year all experiences can help us grow.

Action for the Day: I face this day with confidence, courage, and optimism. I will know that my Higher Power is present in every person and situation.

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

An Answer
Upon therapy for the alcoholic, we surely have no monopoly.
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no
answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will
presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Foreward to Second Edition) p. xxi

Thought to Ponder
Within our wonderful new world,
we have found freedom from our fatal obsession.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Answer Available.

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

Beautiful reality

by Ralph Marston

Look back for just a moment with nothing but pure gratitude in your heart. Gather for yourself a deep and powerful sense of appreciation that you can carry forward.

The joys, the disappointments, the exciting times, the tedious efforts, all have given you great strength. Now, feel that strength and put it to positive use.

Fulfill the promise that has been building in you since long before you knew it was there. Fully appreciate where you’ve been, and carry that appreciation to the very best places you can go.

This is a day when you’re prompted to look to the future. Look now with confidence and the highest expectations.

Life deserves the most purposeful, focused, effective version of yourself you can give it. You deserve the most fulfilling life you can imagine and create.

So activate all that potential you’ve earned at such a great cost, for this is your year, this is your time. This is when you create the beautiful reality that your life has made possible.

From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/