A Sign?
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
In my hometown, I was jogging and I came across this sign. I stopped in mid tracks, startled. And then I looked up laughing and said, "I got it. Okay, I got it!"
Thi ...
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Good Thoughts
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
I have not posted in about 2 weeks. I took a mini-vacation. Today I am realizing how most everything I think about reverberates throughout the universe.
My life is wha ...
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Happiness
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
From the same book - by Ari Kiev
A quote from Richard L Evans;
"May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of th ...
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Surrendering to the Now
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Great read from a person/therapist/counsellor Ari Kiev:
"Surrendering to the now turns off the incessant mental activity that projects negative images onto events. This re ...
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Maturity
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
A great reading the other day. It came from a free Al-Anon pamphlet. The discussion leader read the 16 things behind maturity.
The next week, different meeting, and I sw ...
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Getting Unstuck
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
One of the things I have to get back to doing is "to risk."
I have been under enormous (enormous? probably the right word, but my ego or voice inside my head, I cannot te ...
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Fear - Mastery of,
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
This morning I am reminded that fear resides not outside me, but inside me. Fear is my reaction to my thoughts. Or my thinking about my thoughts of what "could be happening" o ...
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Another NEW Day
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
So. I was bummed out yesterday. Surprise? Nope. I went to bed, couldn't sleep and then woke up around 4AM.
Yes. I did it. I vacuumed the house around 5AM!
OKAY. Went t ...
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A Book I Picked Up
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Not an Al-Anon book for sure. And before I tell you who the author is, I want to tell you what he writes.
He writes what I could not write - but I feel it, and I have the ...
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Just In: Live Your Vision
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
I am rerere -reading A Strategy for Daily Living by Ari Kiev. Great books have to be read many times. And in this little obscure book lies great secrets of living life AND be ...
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Tomorrow
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Tomorrow in Al-Anon is non-existent in the sense that I have my head in the future and what "will" happen or what "might" happen.
In today's reading from Courage to Chang ...
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Just In: What I Don't Do
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
Just In: In Al-Anon I learn to give up control of others, events and other things "outside my circle."
This morning I am reading an interesting thought that I want to sha ...
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Update
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
For the past week, I scurried late at night and in the early morning, to prepare for trial. We were to go to trial Monday - tomorrow - but Friday the deal was delayed once mor ...
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Just In: What If . . . ?
by
Joe M.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism
In Al-Anon I learn NOT to ask "What if?"
But "what if?"
What if I didn't judge? What if I didn't judge myself? What if I didn't judge others?
What if I could el ...
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