Monday, July 5, 2021
Today's Gift
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. —Isaac Bashevis Singer
Many of us have the habit of taking a negative outlook on whatever comes along. We don't believe things will work out for us; we don't think we will have a good day; we can't accept our friends' warm feelings. To follow this gloomy path is a strange distortion of faith - it is faith in the negative. Any forecast, whether hopeful or pessimistic, is a step into the unknown. So why do we choose the dark one?
We get a payoff for our pessimism, which keeps us hooked. It creates misery, but serves our demand for control. There is more risk in being open to something positive because we cannot force positive things to occur. We can only be open to them and believe in the possibility. But when we predict the negative and expect only bad things, we squelch many good things or overlook them. Then we say, "I knew it would be this way," and in our misery we satisfy our self-centered craving to be in charge. When we surrender our need to be in control, we are more open and welcoming of the good things that come our way.
Today. I will be open to the good that is around me.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them ~Albert Einstein
Many of us stubbornly hold on to our long-established, preferred ways of looking at things. We don’t think we are stubborn, only that we rely on what worked for us in the past. Perhaps as young guys, we coped with stress by keeping our thoughts to ourselves, or we figured out that we wouldn’t get hurt if we didn’t trust anyone. All the patterns that we developed as youngsters were our best attempts at the time to deal with our lives. The greater the stress we felt, the harder won were our coping responses, and the stronger our attachment to them.
Our best answers from boyhood may not fit our lifetimes as men. Holding too dearly to childhood solutions freezes us in immature and weaker levels of growth. What was charming and harmless behavior in a child can be manipulating and dishonest in a man. Thus, we create new problems. We need to let ourselves become more vulnerable—to give up the security of our old ways and open ourselves to the messages coming from our friends, our program, and our experiences.
Action for the Day: Today, I will be open to insecurity and create the possibility of growing stronger.
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
In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people,
institutions or principles with whom we were angry. We asked ourselves
why we were angry. In most cases it was found that our self-esteem,
our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including
sex) were hurt or threatened. So we were sore. We were "burned up."
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) pp. 64 - 65
Thought to Ponder
Pain is the measure of our resistance to change.
AA-related 'Alconym'
C A L M = Cause Anger Left Me
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Why to persist***************************Daily MotivationExcerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Don’t get bogged down looking for a way to persist. Just make sure you’re absolutely clear on why you have chosen to persist.
When there is an authentic why, there is true motivation. When there is a real, solid meaningful why, there is action.
Many times that action won’t initially bring the desired results. When that happens, the most effective response is more action that’s been informed and adjusted as a result of the previous attempt.
Even if you have no clue what to do, the way to learn is to do something and discover what happens. And the thing that will get you to do something, and then to do more, is knowing why.
There is no secret technique to discipline. There is no closely guarded insider information on how to persist.
You already know how to start, and how to keep going, and how to persist until you achieve the objective. To utilize that knowledge and that discipline, all you have to do is to truly know why.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Don’t get bogged down looking for a way to persist. Just make sure you’re absolutely clear on why you have chosen to persist.
When there is an authentic why, there is true motivation. When there is a real, solid meaningful why, there is action.
Many times that action won’t initially bring the desired results. When that happens, the most effective response is more action that’s been informed and adjusted as a result of the previous attempt.
Even if you have no clue what to do, the way to learn is to do something and discover what happens. And the thing that will get you to do something, and then to do more, is knowing why.
There is no secret technique to discipline. There is no closely guarded insider information on how to persist.
You already know how to start, and how to keep going, and how to persist until you achieve the objective. To utilize that knowledge and that discipline, all you have to do is to truly know why.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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