“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln Failure isn’t fatal it is the seed to success. Of course you have heard about Thomas Edison’s failure record when it came to developing the light bulb. He was asked how he could fail so … Read more
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William C. Durant Living today as if yesterdays mistakes did not occur is essential for getting on in life. Now of course we need to practice prudence so that we do not repeat the same mess over and … Read more
“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.” Thomas Henry Huxley Hope knocks at your door, but fear says you can’t come in. To be happy we must refrain from allowing fear in to our lives. Yes it is a normal response to outside stimuli, however, when we … Read more
“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” – Isak Dinesen It is so easy to get overwhelmed in early recovery. We attempt to bite off more than we can chew. However, having … Read more
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden Through the years I have found that the more Hope and Love a person had as a child the greater the chance they would have at recovery. Now of course that is … Read more
“Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.… It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.” – Sir Laurence Olivier At times I have been guilty of attempting to be a perfectionist, in hindsight I can see it was an excuse for the fear of acting. I … Read more
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve. —Alcoholics Anonymous (4th ed.) We have Blogged before … Read more
“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.” – Basil Maturin I have never met anyone that has entered recovery because they were overjoyed with their life. Typically folks have tried various ways to control their … Read more
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” Thomas Paine Amazingly as we grow in our recovery we get better at handling situations that used to baffle us! That is one of the ninth step promises. As we mature in life we grow … Read more