Keep It Simple
I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.—Winston Churchill
We addicts are used to learning the hard way. Many of us think we’re different and can do things our own way. But then we get in too much trouble or pain. The first AA members were just like us. They knew how it is to hate being told what to do. So they suggested we follow the Twelve Steps. They didn’t say we have to do anything. They didn’t say working the Steps is the only way to live sober. They just said the Steps worked for them. we’re finding out that the Steps work for us too. We don’t have to work them.
We don’t have to stay sober. We just like our new sober life better than our old drinking or drugging life.
And we learned how to live this new life by working the Steps
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me be open to your lessons. Teach me gently and help me listen.
Action for the Day: I will list five ways that I get in the way of my own learning.
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I generally don’t like learning…It usually has to do with pain…For it is seldom I learn much without pain…Until then I am unwilling to listen…I always say after a learning spree that next time I won’t wait so long but then yet again…I wait till I hurt…Theoretically I should know anytime bad times arrive that I have a learning opportunity but when I get there I do everything in my power to make it stop…I don’t generally make resolutions but my Goal for this year is to accept times of difficulty & try to learn as much as I can…Till next time…
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January 15th, 2010 - 12:25 pm
excellent…glad you told me about this page, Kenney…and i absolutely agree with everything you just said…and yes, pain can be a great motivator…usually i do not find the motivation to change a behavior until i suffer a great deal of pain first…then, out of desperation, i seek help…when my fears and resentments become out of control, and my life once again becomes unmanagable because of it, and i find that what i am currently doing is not helping, it is time to seek outside help….AA is not the ‘say-all’ and ‘end-all’ for recovery…but, i have found it works for me and that’s why i stick around
January 15th, 2010 - 6:08 pm
Hey Oliver thanx a bunch for your great comment…I’m glad to see that great minds think alike…Kenney