Today is September 17, 2005 A Great Day for Recovery!
PEOPLE-PLEASING
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is try to please everybody." -- Herbert Bayard Swope
Part of my recovery is not that I never "people-please" but that I know when I am doing it . . . and I am doing it less!
My low self-esteem was revealed in the way I would say what I felt you wanted to hear, do what you wanted to do, go where you wanted to go -- and for years I missed me. For years I missed my life because I was preoccupied with other people. And I wasn't honest. I hated being that way but I wouldn't admit it. Now I see that my guilt around my addiction led me into this sick cycle, and recovery is taking me out of it. Today I say "I don't want to go." "I don't agree with what you are saying." "I refuse to do that."
My dignity is being discovered in my straight forwardness.
God, may I have the courage to share my true feelings.
Saturday, September 17, 2005 Quality of your thoughts
With your thoughts you can open your eyes. What you see in front of you is a function of the thoughts you nourish inside of you.
Have you ever thought about a person whom you haven't heard from in a long time, and then that person suddenly appears again in your life? It may seem magical or supernatural but it's not.
For your thoughts did not magically cause that person to appear. Instead, your thoughts opened you up to connect with that person who was there all the time.
There are vast expanses of reality that you have never even considered. Your thoughts can open you up to experience all sorts of valuable and wondrous things.
Life becomes available to you to the extent that your thoughts allow. And the quality of life that you experience is very closely connected to the quality of your thoughts.
Your thoughts are the filter through which you connect with the world where you live. With your thoughts you can choose to experience the best of life's countless possibilities.
