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Tue, Jul 30, 2013 07:52:21 AM
§ self-examination, i once felt, would have been §
posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 07:52:21 AM
a painful exercise in futility. today, all that has changed.
i write that statement not from a sense of superiority, but simply to state a face. the fact is, i have found a great deal of payoff in doing a daily inventory. since it rewards me each and every day, like a good reward driven being, i continue to do it every day, hence reinforcing the behavior. what i do nor get is how others drift away from such a tool, but if i go there, there will be a smug and yes superior attitude presented. today, although tempted to do so, i am not about to go there. one less action for the corrective part of my daily inventory. in fact as the morning has slipped away from me, here, i really do not have too much more to say.
If you do not practice a daily inventory and have worked a TENTH STEP, then be assured you are missing out on one of the most incredible “tools” the program has given me. i say that without any malice or reservation, because for me, IT JUST WORKS!
off to the office to see if i can get past the roadblock i was presented with yesterday.
i write that statement not from a sense of superiority, but simply to state a face. the fact is, i have found a great deal of payoff in doing a daily inventory. since it rewards me each and every day, like a good reward driven being, i continue to do it every day, hence reinforcing the behavior. what i do nor get is how others drift away from such a tool, but if i go there, there will be a smug and yes superior attitude presented. today, although tempted to do so, i am not about to go there. one less action for the corrective part of my daily inventory. in fact as the morning has slipped away from me, here, i really do not have too much more to say.
If you do not practice a daily inventory and have worked a TENTH STEP, then be assured you are missing out on one of the most incredible “tools” the program has given me. i say that without any malice or reservation, because for me, IT JUST WORKS!
off to the office to see if i can get past the roadblock i was presented with yesterday.
∞ DT ∞
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While the author is a member of a 12 Step recovery fellowship, these writings are not intended to endorse or express the published wisdom of any fellowship.
These writings are not meant to be socially or politically correct, and if you take issue with any opinions expressed, please seek the guidance of someone wiser than me.
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
2) Though they had boats and carriages, they should have no occasion
to ride in them; though they had buff coats and sharp weapons, they
should have no occasion to don or use them.