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Whether you think you can or you think you can't, youre right.~ Henry Ford
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Today's Gift - 1/4
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"All too often," confesses a gal, "I get so caught up in hurry and worry that I ignore my own needs. I push myself so hard to get this and that done that I make myself physically ill before I have the sense to rest. There's got to be a better way!"Some of us, it seems, have to learn the im...
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Hi Everyone.
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Wishing all you everything of the best in 2015. Stick close to our meetings and program. It's the only thing tangible for us alcoholics. Kind regards. Gonee.
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Sunrise Quote
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Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you are going to do, and just do it.~ Marilyn Grey
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Today's Gift - 1/3
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When I came in, they told me, "Let us love you until you can learn to love yourself." --AnonymousIt takes a long time to learn to love ourselves. So many things we've done seem hard to forgive. We might be trying to dig out from under tons of negative garbage, negative images. Fortunately, ou...
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Can't I just be a problem drinker that has a desire to quit drinking today without being an alcoholic?
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First meeting was an epic fail everyone there spent the whole meeting trying to tell me I'm just like them and if I don't agree I'm just in denial.. I related to some of the things that were said but I still don't identify as an alcoholic.... Today I am powerless over alcohol sure but I believe that in due ti...
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Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.~ Peter F. Drucker
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Today's Gift - 1/2
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The new is but the old come true; each sunrise sees a new year born. --Helen Hunt JacksonWe know that a totally new life can begin on any day of a year, at any hour of the day, or at any moment of an hour. That new life began the moment we decided to surrender and admit to powerlessness over a substance or an imp...
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Good morning brothers and sisters
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It feels like it's been an awful long time since I contributed to this forum so I thought this morning I'd look around and see what's happening.
I was surprised to find a post from 2012 resurrected. The one about the chip system.
Well anyway here were are, last day of the year and in a couple days it'll be...
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I'm so confused really? This reading - can anyone help?
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You are reading from the book The Language of Letting GoThe New Year Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us dir...
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.~ Curtis Carlson
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Today's Gift - 1/1
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Reflection for the Day In the old days, I saw everything in terms of forever. Endless hours were spent rehashing old mistakes. I tried to take comfort in the forlorn hope that tomorrow would be "different." As a result, I lived a fantasy life in which happiness was all but nonexistent. N...
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Welcome Janet K of Baltimore
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Welcome to MIP Janet ... glad you found us ... and Congrats on your upcoming 1 year anniversary ...
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1/1/15
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IT's New Years day in Aussie . th world has not ended , ok so I Will keep my daytime job. Happy New Year My Fellow MIRACLES. Together We go forward . One Day at a time . we have No big shots One shot & we Are all shot
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Sunrise Quote
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Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.~ Steve Maraboli
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Today's Gift - 12/31
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Time is a circle. The end is the beginning.Day by day, a year comes and goes. Today's end is the beginning of the rest of our lives. We take with us what we have learned today. We are the same and not the same.As long as we are alive, we will continue to wrestle with questions, seek answers, and solve problem...
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The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; its what you share.~ Unknown
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Today's Gift - 12/30
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Being less than perfect.It was not a perfect year. But is there ever a perfect year? Being clean and sober does not purport or offer perfection. It gives us a chance to strive for progress. When we keep our Higher Power in our thoughts and actions, we come closer to perfection all the time.Despite the di...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 29, 2014Quote of the Week"God handed me the menu. He didn't tell me to choose the shit sandwich." This quote seemed appropriate for the New Year because it reminds me that in recovery, with a relationship with a Higher Power, I have a world of opportunities open to me. In meeti...
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Sunrise Quote
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.~ Soren Kierkegaard
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Today's Gift - 12/29
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Has it been a year of growth?As any year draws to a close, we should reflect on how we have grown in sobriety. We should also identify changes during the year that enabled us to overcome bad habits and to move closer to better patterns of living.Though we never are guaranteed favorable outcomes, we shou...
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Thoughts on my first sober Christmas
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This is my first sober holiday season since I was a child. I don't have the words to express how amazing it is that I am experiencing a Christmas this way with my babies and wife. I won't go into detail about the way it used to be because I want to focus on the positive right now. All I know is that I'm 100% prese...
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Sunrise Quote
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.~ Mahatma Ghandi
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My Christmas Gig
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The Peanut Gallery was an easy audience once they were warmed up by Princess Kandy Kane..Distributing "All they could Eat" candy. I posted picture through My avitar
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Speaker Tapes of Famous People!
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Check out our selection of AA talks by famous people, it turns out, they're just like us! The disease of alcoholism doesn't discriminate, but thankfully, neither do the 12 steps of AA. Enjoy this playlist, and if you like our channel, please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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Sunrise Quote
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesnt lead anywhere.~ Frank A. Clark
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Today's Gift - 12/27
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Love-abilityA friend of mine recently told me how he met his wife. He had watched her walk by his store every day for a year with her young son. She also happened to be a friend of his neighbor."Fix me up," he suggested to his neighbor. "We'll go on a double date. I really want to meet her.&...
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Can I go back to a meeting after I had a lapse
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I worry they won't welcome me. I am ashamed I need to find a sponsor and it's a group I can walk too? I'm disappointed in myself and worry about others being too.
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A day of rebirth
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For me... coming home like never before after a christmas party some years ago... saying the words to my inner most self... and logging in here... never to be the same again. Merry Christmas. I love you all. Xxxxhugsxxx.
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Sunrise Quote
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Today's Gift - 12/26
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Working todayAs we approach a new year, many of us feel fear. We look back on the past and worry about the future. But if we remember we only have today, we can work to make that future better. We have found true friends in our fellowship, and this is a time to be with them.Am I ensuring a fruitful future by wo...
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Merry Christmas
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From Hilo...cloudy and cold and niiiiice. Wishing you all sober and sane and serene days. Our AA by the Bay, "Brunch before the Christmas Crunch" went awesomely well and wish ya`ll could have been with us. God Bless. (((((Hugs)))))
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Today's Gift - 12/25 - Merry Christmas
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Celebration is a forgetting in order to remember. A forgetting of ego, of problems, of difficulties. A letting go. --Matthew FoxA holiday presents us with an opportunity to practice the letting go of this program. This is a special day to set aside our work and our routines, to put our problems and bur...
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Twenty Six years sober today
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Hi All, Today, 12/23/14, I'm celebrating 26 years of continuous sobriety. I just flew into southern California this morning to spend the holidays with my family and I'll be taking the opportunity to visit some old AA friends in some of my old meetings where I got sober. Happy Holidays to all, one day...
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Sunrise Quote
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For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.~ Clarence E. Hodges
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Today's Gift - 12/24
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... [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. --Thomas MoreWe take different kinds of pleasure in giving. Perhaps the purest is the gift to a child so young it doesn't really know who the gift came from; the pu...
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Grapevine
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December 24 "My miracle occurred when I became willing to go to any lengths to take action. Like the trapeze artist, it wasn't the knowledge of it being there -- it was the action of letting go."
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Cunning, Powerful and Baffling...
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There isn't any doubt and there is no effort to do anything other than accept that description. I was driving home from work with my wife and another passenger in the car. My wife is a very fear based person and her imagination seems to be addicted to it. It is safer for me to let her drive rather than...
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Sunrise Quote
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.~ Joseph Addison
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Today's Gift - 12/23
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --ConfuciusSome of us were raised to decline generosity - to argue over who pays the restaurant bill, not to accept money for helping s...
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Grapevine
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December 23 "The first 100 members of this Fellowship, who hammered out the Twelve Steps, knew what they were doing. They could have made it two steps or ten steps or twenty-five steps, but they didn't. I don't think they put anything in they didn't think they needed. They were working the whole p...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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December 22, 2014Quote of the Week"When you own your part, you own your power." When I was new to the program, I dreaded doing my fourth step inventory. What possible good could it do me to list all my resentments I wondered? When my sponsor told me there was an invisible category called &...
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Sunrise Quote
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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.~ H.W. Dresses
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Today's Gift - 12/22
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Keep your recovery First to make it Last. --Anonymous We all encounter places, people, and times of the year which trigger memories of our old lifestyle, pleasant or painful events. Holidays and family gatherings may be especially stressful times for us. There have always been a lot of expectatio...
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Weekly Thought (Religious Concept)
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Verse Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests. Luke 2:14 Quote Love came down on Christmas Day so many years ago and brought the greatest happiness the world would ever know. Peace came down on Christmas Day to fill the hearts of men with all the sweet tranquility...
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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today's Gift - 12/21
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Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. --Catherine PonderGetting mad at someone, a friend perhaps, is normal. Everybody gets mad sometimes. But when we stay mad for very long, it ruins all the fun we'd planned on having throughout the day. Staying mad multiplies. Sometimes it s...
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Patrick STARfish@SpongBob or crowling spiders :- system
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sharing a book i had read couple week ago, alcohol is my personal future problem to be i guess, anyway the book teaches method of centralized and decentralized people's living condition. they titled it starfish and spiders. Wow that is where i have actually knew about the 12 steps open sys for AA? i en...
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What A Gig This will be.
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TOMORROW I dress as Santa... beard and all...I bribed my audience 3-10 by buying $100.00 worth of candy "That will get their attention"... I will be making Balloon animals and space helmuts for my audience. I will be bringing my guitar..but will be informing my audience " aint gonn...
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Today's Gift - 12/20
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A.A. Thought for the Day The satisfaction we get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things, but they add up to a satisfactory and happy life. Don't worry about what life will be like without liquor. Just hang in there and a lot of good things will happen to us. Is my life becoming really w...
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