Friday, February 19, 2021
Today's Gift
Setting Our Own Course
We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be.
We can control how we respond to other people's expectations.
During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, money, and emotions. We do not have to say yes to every request. We do not have to feel guilty if we say no. And we do not have to allow the barrage of demands to control the course of our life.
We do not have to spend our life reacting to others and to the course they would prefer we took with our life.
We can set boundaries, firm limits on how far we shall go with others. We can trust and listen to ourselves. We can set goals and direction for our life. We can place value on ourselves.
We can own our power with people.
Buy some time. Think about what you want. Consider how responding to another's needs will affect the course of your life. We live or own life by not letting other people, their expectations, and their demands control the course of our life. We can let them have their demands and expectations; we can allow them to have their feelings. We can own our power to choose the path that is right for us.
Today, Higher Power, help me own my power by detaching and peacefully choosing the course of action that is right for me. Help me know I can detach from the expectations and wants of others. Help me stop pleasing other people and start pleasing myself.
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
********************************Twenty-Four Hours a DayKeep It Simple
What am I becoming? How do I know if what I'm doing is right? Is it best for me? We are full of questions. Often, times of question a are times of change. We are becoming something new, and there is always a little fear of change. Luckily, we don't need to know what we are becoming to find peace. What we need to know is what we believe in. And we'll become what we believe in. If we believe in sobriety, we'll be sober. If we believe in honestly, we'll struggle to be more honest. We must give ourselves the freedom of becoming. Becoming means we're on a trip, a journey. Over time, becoming takes on a comfort of its own.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, what am I becoming? I give up having to know the answer. All I need to believe is that You love me and will do what is best for me.
Action for the Day: I'll ask lots of questions. Often, the question is more important than the answer.
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
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble,
to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the
human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be
desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time. A whole lifetime
geared to self-centeredness cannot be set in reverse all at once.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 73
Thought to Ponder
Humility is the soil in which all other virtues grow.
AA-related 'Alconym'
H U M B L E = Honest, Unassuming, Mindful, Believable, Loving, Encouraging
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Life’s call to action***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
When life asks the most from you is when you’re getting the most from life. What you receive is inseparable from what you give.
Dig deep, give more, and you’ll benefit just as much as anyone. That is the essential nature of every opportunity.
Today is filled with many such opportunities. Turn toward them, filled with gratitude, eager to do your best work.
Get involved and invested, pulling life again and again in a more positive direction. Let each small gain remind you how much more you can do.
Achievement is not easy but neither is it complicated. It’s a matter of going where you are needed and doing what must be done.
You’ve always been good at that, and each effort makes you better. Answer life’s call to action and share in the great rewards.
When life asks the most from you is when you’re getting the most from life. What you receive is inseparable from what you give.
Dig deep, give more, and you’ll benefit just as much as anyone. That is the essential nature of every opportunity.
Today is filled with many such opportunities. Turn toward them, filled with gratitude, eager to do your best work.
Get involved and invested, pulling life again and again in a more positive direction. Let each small gain remind you how much more you can do.
Achievement is not easy but neither is it complicated. It’s a matter of going where you are needed and doing what must be done.
You’ve always been good at that, and each effort makes you better. Answer life’s call to action and share in the great rewards.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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