The Work-In: Daily Motivation 1-28-2021

 Thursday, January 28, 2021

Today's Gift

If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you’ll end up losing what you have in the present. Anonymous

Staying in the Present Moment

Often, one of our biggest questions is "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle us up in worrisome thoughts.

Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from functioning effectively today. It keeps us from doing our best now. It blocks us from learning and mastering today's lessons. Staying in the now, doing our best, and participating fully today are all we need to do to assure ourselves that what's going to happen tomorrow will be for the best.

Worrying about what's going to happen is a negative contribution to our future. Living in the here and now is ultimately the best thing we can do, not only for today, but also for tomorrow. It helps our relationships, our career, our growth, and our life.

Things will work out, if we let them. If we must focus on the future other than to plan, all we need to do is affirm that it will be good.

I will have faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow.

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

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. --Billie Jean King

Champions are made. How lucky we are to have the Steps to guide us to become champions. The program promises us self-awareness, but we have to put forth the effort. And the process isn't always easy. We have liabilities, all of us, and it's generally easier to see them than our assets. Self-awareness is recognizing both. To become a champion, whether as an athlete, a homemaker, a teacher, a secretary, or an attorney, is to maximize the assets and minimize the liabilities, but to accept the existence of both. The program that we share offers us daily opportunities to know ourselves, to help other women know themselves, and to strengthen our assets along the way. We can feel our assets growing, and it feels good. We can see our liabilities diminish, and it feels good. The program offers us a championship.

Action for the Day: I can strengthen my assets, first by knowing them, and then by emphasizing them repeatedly. I'll focus on one today.

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

Tradition Twelve
And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity
has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles
before personalities; that we are to practice a genuine humility. This to the end
that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful
contemplation of our Higher Power who presides over us all.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Appendice 1, Long Form) p. 565 - 566

Thought to Ponder
Anonymity is real humility at work.

AA-related 'Alconym'
C H A N G E D = Choosing Humility Allows New Growth Each Day

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

Something you can love

by Ralph Marston

There is something you can love about right now. Do you see it, can you feel it?

Somewhere within this moment is unique beauty. Somehow within this situation is positive potential.

Encourage yourself to resonate with the goodness that already exists. Challenge yourself to envision and create the value that can be.

Go beyond the obvious and look with eyes enlightened by love. Discover how very much there is to love, to care for, to build upon right here and right now.

Colors, sounds, feelings, motions and ideas swirl through your awareness. Connect them all together and give them a positive, useful direction with love.

This is the moment you have, this is the moment you are living. To find the very best in it give your very best to it, with love leading the way.

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