The Work-In: Daily Motivation 1-8-2021

   Friday, January 8, 2021

Today's Gift

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment. —David D. Burns

Good thoughts are like bright colors in a painting. Negative thoughts are dark and dreary and drab. Each day we paint pictures of our own lives with our thoughts. If we step back and look at the canvas, we will see whether the picture is alive with bright colors or dreary and lifeless like a dark cloud. Our thoughts have the power to bring joy or sadness our way, depending on what we expect or look for in our surroundings. The choice of how we want our lives to be is ours. Since we paint a new picture each day, we are always free to change things when they don't please us. What better time than the present?

Is there something in my life I'd like to change today?

From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©

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

Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see...Bill W.

At times, we'll go through pain and hardship, At times, we'll have doubts. At times, we'll get angry and think we just don't care anymore. These things can spiritually blind us. But this normal. Hopefully, we'll be ready for those times. Hopefully, we will have friends who will be there for you. Thank God for these moments! Yes, hard times can make our spirits deep and strong. These moments tell us who we are as sober people. These moments help us grow and change. Spirituality is about choice. To be spiritual, we must turn ourselves over to the care of our Higher Power.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me find You in my moments of blindness. This is when I really need You.

Action for the Day: Today I'll get ready for the hard times ahead. I will list my friends who will be there for me.

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

Countless Vain Attempts
Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been
characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink
like other people. The idea that somehow, someday they will control
and enjoy their drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal
drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many
pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30

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

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Absolute Abstinence

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

Life is real

by Ralph Marston

Today is your opportunity to live well. Decide what you are going to do with it, and then do it.

Today is your opportunity to make a difference, in your own life, in the lives of others. Seize that opportunity and follow all the way through on it.

Today is more than just time to be passed, situations to be endured. Today is when life is real, when possibilities are present, when fulfillment gets done.

What a waste it would be to let all that slip by without something distinctive to show for it. Embrace your potential and then do something with it.

Today will have challenges, to be sure. So be sure to make those challenges count for something good and worthwhile.

Feel the purpose that lives within you. Today that purpose has all sorts of great things to do.

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