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. . .and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.—Second half of Step Ten— We are human. We make mistakes. This is half the fun of being human. Step Ten clearly tell us what to do when we are wrong: admit it. This keeps us honest. It keeps us from hiding secrets that could cause […]
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Continued to take personal inventory. . .First half of Step Ten. Step Ten tells us to keep looking at who we are. We ask ourselves, “Is what I’m doing okay?” If it is, then we take pride in the way we are acting. If not, we change our behavior. Step Ten keeps us in the […]
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If we follow the Twelve Steps, we’ll leave failure behind. We may have tried and tired to be sober, good people, but failed if we were doing it our way. Now is the time to stop listening to ourselves and start listening to pros, those who have gone before us. When we follow their lead, […]
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Keep coming back.. it works if you work it. Fortitude a popular self-help book noted that there is tremendous power in repetition…. like the tap-tap-tap of a hammer that finally drives the nail through a board. AA works in much the same way; attendance at meetings is the steady tap-tap-tap that helps bring about lasting […]
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Honesty is the backbone of our recovery program. Honesty opens us up. It breaks down the walls we had built around our secret world. Those walls made a prison for us. But all of that is now changed. We are free. Honesty has made us wise. We aren’t sneaking drinks anymore. We don’t have a […]
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The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. —Mme. Marquise du Deffand— During our addiction, we were on a path leading to death—death of our spirit, mind, and body. On that path, we tried not to think about where it would lead. We didn’t want to get there. We just followed the path […]
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Martyrs set bad examples… —David Russell— Sometimes we call people “martyrs.” We sometimes think of them as victims. They suffer, but sometimes not for a cause. They play “poor me.” They want people to notice how much they suffer. They are afraid to really live. These are the people who set bad examples. True martyrs […]
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. —Will Durant— Sometimes we say bad things about others. When we do this, it makes us look bad too. Our friends worry what we might say about them behind their backs. They’re afraid to trust us. We become known as gossips. The things […]
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. . . he who finds himself loses his misery. —Matthew Arnold— We have lost a lot of misery. In it’s place inside us, a spirit grows. . . as love is added. Especially self-love. In our illness, we came to hate ourselves. It was really our illness we hated. We couldn’t find ourselves. All […]
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One Day at a Time. Program slogan This slogan means we are to take with us only the joys and problems of the present day. We don’t carry with us the mistakes of the days gone by. We have no room for them. We are to work at loving others today. Just today. It’s crazy […]