The Work-In: Daily Motivation 4-16-2021

Friday, April 16, 2021

Today's Gift 

. . . there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. —Booker T. Washington

It's not what we do for a job that counts, it's how we do it. It's not what our chores at home might be, it's how we do them. And it's not what grades we get in school, but rather how hard we try. Doing our best, whether it's making a bed, writing a report, or listening to a friend tell about an experience gives us a good feeling about ourselves.

Each of us is special to one another. And we are special to this very moment. Because what is past can't be repeated, let's remember to enjoy every moment as it comes. Let's pay close attention to each person, each activity that we encounter today. It's not what we do today, but how we do it that counts.

Can I do each thing well today, even the small things?

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

Nothing is worth more than this day. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life—each day of it, each minute of it—is such a miracle. Let’s stop and think about it for a minute. Where does it come from? Why was it given to each of us?

Life is not the same for any two people. Every person has a life that is different from everyone else’s. Yet in some ways it is the same for all of us. We are all born, and we all die. We all lose people we love and welcome new people to love into our lives.

The flavor of life today—the exact mix of sunshine and clouds, happiness and sadness, courage and fear, love and loneliness—will never be the same again. Not tomorrow or the next day.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me appreciate the beauty of your world and the richness of my life today.

Today's Action: Today I will smile—at everyone.

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

Change
We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried
to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our
entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we
became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed
to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 47

Thought to Ponder
If you want to change who you are, change what you do.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Action Always

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

Today’s joys

by Ralph Marston

Later is too late. Live today’s joys today.

Honor your commitments, do your work. But don’t let it become an excuse to put off the joys you can create and experience right now.

Joy refreshes you, inspires you, energizes you. And there’s a lot of good you can do with that energy.

Joy connects you with purpose, with love, with all you value. Joy reminds you why you do what you do, why you seek what you seek.

Joy is yours to choose here, now. Joy asks only that you allow it, express it, share it, and when you do, the moment is filled with its energy.

Offer the value of joy to those you’re with, to where you are, to what you’re doing. Live today’s joys, for the only time to do so is now.

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