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smartkat


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I'm not talking about slogans in the book.

I am talking about things like "Put down the magnifying glass and pick up the mirror!"

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Mine comes from a commercial that was out a few years ago, "Press the easy button."
I am trying to simplify my life and do things the easy way.  Living with an alcoholic is too much for most of us.  Some things in life (dinner, etc ) ought to be easy.smile

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LOL...I like the thread...How bout "If it ain't broke don't fix it".  Or the one my sponsor
taught me to get me out of denial that my spouse was severely alcoholic, "If it looks
like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like at duck....it's a duck!!"   That helped
me not get into a discussion with the alcoholic and everytime she tried to convince
me she wasn't an alcoholic all I'd hear was "QUACK!!"   I love "God don't make junk!!"

I'm listening now...((((hugs)))) smile

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I don't know if it's from the book, but I really love "Do the next right thing."

It's helpful to me in my crazy busy life to remember that I can't tackle it all at once! :)

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Trust God, Clean House and Help Others...

I'm also not sure of the source, but so very often when my brain is in a jumble, this phrase, with many others helps me. 

And often - it's super literal for me.  I function better when that which I can control is in order so...that clean house may mean 'clean the house' or it may mean take a mini inventory, call another to vent, etc.

Great Topic - thank you.

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This isn't really a slogan, but I use it a lot with high school students:  How's it working for ya?


Whenever I need to conference with one of them due to inappropriate and/or poor choices, I first  listen to their explanation and then ask this question.  Nearly, every time the student will crack up.  It seems to open the path to discussing a better way of doing things.

(I use it with me, too, whenever I'm evaluating my choices.)  It works!

I borrowed that question from Dr. Phil; I used to watch his show in the beginning.  But got burnt out.  A little of the doc goes a long way with me.

-- Edited by GailMichelle on Sunday 31st of January 2010 10:44:25 AM

-- Edited by GailMichelle on Sunday 31st of January 2010 10:45:40 AM

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"Take what you like and leave the rest."

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"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it"
I saw this posted on another forum


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'sticking feathers up ur a** does not make you a chicken' - tyler durden, fight club

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Don't worry about the small stuff---- it's not going to matter a hundred years from now.

I'm like the monkey who was dating the skunk----I've had about all this I can stand.

Of all the things I miss------ I miss my mind the most.

Carry your worries in your pocket ---with a hole in it.

Seven days without MIP makes one "WEAK".

You might have nothing but hope, but if hope is all you got----it's 100% of nothing.

 







-- Edited by RLC on Sunday 31st of January 2010 04:08:43 PM

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Say what you think because those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind.

ANGELS EXIST but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS.

 

This Too Shall Pass  ~ Only God can turn a mess into a message.

 

Say what you mean but don't say it meanly.  ~  Expectations are premeditated resentments.

"A's pick up the bottle alanons pick up people."  ~ Take the blame out of me & all u get is bla bla bla.

"If HP brings you to it, HP will walk you through it." ~ "Change your attitude change your life.

Insanity is doing the same things over and expecting different results.

Dont go to the hardware store for bread.

My serenity is proportionate to my acceptance.   

 

Recovery is self-discovery.

Happiness & knowledge increase only as we share it with others.

Change my attitude, change my life. 

"My serenity is proportionate to my acceptance."     

"You can't control the wind but you can set your sails."

"The mind is like a parachute, it works best when open."

"Thank You God for reminding me not to interfere with Your Divine Plan."

"Listen not to criticisms or accolades both take you off your path." A. Einstein

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." B. Franklin

If you are looking in the past or the future, you're not living in the now.

The present is a gift. The gift is now. Live for today. Live for each and every new moment.

Be gentle with yourself.  Fight for yourself, you are worth it, if you dont who will?

In recovery were all like infants, first we crawl then we can stand. We take steps & learn to walk before we can run free.

 

What I defend, I make real/true for me.

 

"we dont always see life as it is, we see it as we are" -dream

 

Take care of you, whatever that looks like.

 

If you want something youve never had before, do something you have never done before.

 

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

 

Procrastination is another form of resistance. Louise Hay

I do not have to know how to forgive, I only need to become willing to. Louise Hay

 

today...I dont have to give up on my hopes and dreams...god is not limited by lack of imagination.

 



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*Only God can turn a mess into a message

*If nothing ever changes~nothing ever changes.

*Faith is confindence in God when we just don't understand.

*I'm through playing God

*Put the I over the E-Intelligence over Emotion

*EASY does it!

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Put down the magnifying glass and pick up the mirror!

Only God can turn a mess into a message.

Prayin' on it, Stayin' on it, I will survive it.

If nothing ever changes, nothing ever changes.
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*If I have FEAR, then I don't have FAITH

*DETACH--Don't Ever Try And Change Him/Her

*We have to go through the Storm to figure out the Glory

*Life hands you Lemons...make Lemonaid

*Men are dumb Women are crazy and Women are crazy cause men are dumb (silly one makes me laugh)

*When nothing is going Right...turn Left!!

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The word "NO" is a complete sentence.

What other people think about me is none of my business.

-- Edited by blender_girl on Monday 1st of February 2010 02:29:10 PM

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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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DON'T LET PEOPLE RENT SPACE IN YOUR HEAD!
MY MIND IS A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD, EVEN I DON'T LIKE TO GO IN THERE!
(I THINK THAT'S HOW THE LAST ONE GOES)
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geez - there are so many (a lot of them have been mentioned above and one is my signature)

If you want something different, you gotta be willing to do something different.

Tired of being a doormat? GET UP OFF THE FLOOR.

Happy, Joyous and FREE- REGARDLESS

No Matter what Me and My God are going to be ok, even better than OK!

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