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Its time to take my recovery forward, time to get rid of one maybe two of my shortcomings, im not sure how it works yet, one at a time or do one get one free. Oh well, it doesnt matter. What matters is I stop procrastinating and being distracted by life and get back inside my head and do the work. Im still on step 5. I have not told god yet, well not officially. I want it to be meaningful.
It needs to get done and soon. The first shortcoming I want to be free from is intolerance, I think. I have been pushed into becoming my groups representative, the old timers think it will be good for me.lol. so, I went to the first meeting yesterday. My intolerance, self rightousness and arrogance are alive and kicking. I was thinking, well I could fix this, make that more efficient, change this and that. I could make this much better. Spent too much time on this and that. Honestly, the complaints in my head were not good. So the oldtimers were right this job is going to be good for me because I am going to work on my shortcomings. The good news is, I feel blessed being able to recognise them in the first place and blessed that I have a way to deal with them. Thank you alanon.x
There is no better......whatever shows up for you is a beautiful piece that gets to be illuminated and included in the whole of you, which is beautiful I like the beautiful you.
-- Edited by PP on Sunday 11th of May 2014 08:07:48 AM
Good Work LC Seeing my negative attitudes and how they affected my serenity was my first step in asking to be healed. HP continued to show these attitudes to me so that I became tired of witnessing the negative feelings within and became willing to ask HP to set me free. One day I looked and I found that I had become more patient, more compassionate, filled with more empathy and wisdom HP had done for me what I could never do for myself, He had set me free. Keep up the good work.
I wanna watch!! I always learn from others making positive changes. You reminded me when I was working this with my sponsorship that one taught me about doing the "opposites" "If what you are doing now isn't working and causing you trouble...do the opposite and get the opposite". He of course was right and the opposite for procrastination for me is promptness (reworking that now) and the opposite of intolerance is patience and open mindedness just like our closing statement says.
I like the beautiful you.