I have been clean for:
I Stand With Ukraine

Welcome

Journal

Some memes

Feel Free to steal and repost these memes!

Surrender meme Work the steps meme

ฮด instead of living my life by default, i can learn how to make responsible choices and take risks. ฮด

Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 10:50:37 AM

a heightened awareness of myself and an increased willingness to accept personal responsibility gives me the freedom to change, to make choices, and to grow.
so i was up way early this morning and got started on a project that was only going to take a few minutes. HA! the project i got started now will be a whole morning long, and it has been one that i have been putting off for quite some time now. life is like that too! i think i know what i need to undertake on a daily basis, and i often find what i start is not going to take as long as i think it is or takes even longer. the irony of this ties back to the reading, if i choose to continue to let the world decide what i am going to do, how i am going to behave and live in a reactive mode, i will continue to be miserable. the choice to be a victim is mine on a daily basis, heck a minute by minute basis. i believe that i choose to accept responsibility for my actions and behaviors today. after all, it is yet another good day to recover!

∞ DT ∞


Another Look

This day in older entries

๐Ÿ… if generosity ๐Ÿ†
423 words ➥ Friday, February 20, 2026 by donnot
๐Ÿง shifting my focus ๐Ÿง
385 words ➥ Thursday, February 20, 2025 by donnot
๐Ÿ’ซ in with generosity, ๐Ÿ’ซ
335 words ➥ Tuesday, February 20, 2024 by donnot
๐Ÿšฝ avoiding responsibility ๐Ÿšฝ
540 words ➥ Monday, February 20, 2023 by donnot
๐ŸŒ  my inability ๐ŸŒŸ
267 words ➥ Sunday, February 20, 2022 by donnot
๐Ÿ‘ holding onto ๐Ÿ‘
480 words ➥ Saturday, February 20, 2021 by donnot
๐Ÿ‘ป spending ๐Ÿ‘ป
594 words ➥ Thursday, February 20, 2020 by donnot
๐Ÿผ living my life ๐Ÿผ
587 words ➥ Wednesday, February 20, 2019 by donnot
๐Ÿ‹ personal power, ๐Ÿ‘
533 words ➥ Tuesday, February 20, 2018 by donnot
โ†ป giving away โ†บ
794 words ➥ Monday, February 20, 2017 by donnot
โชญ powerlessness and โชญ
714 words ➥ Saturday, February 20, 2016 by donnot
โ™ฃ i AM powerless over addiction, โ™ฃ
652 words ➥ Friday, February 20, 2015 by donnot
โˆ‚ my feelings, actions, and choices are mine. โˆ‚
664 words ➥ Thursday, February 20, 2014 by donnot
ยฑ i need to remember that i am powerless ยฑ
358 words ➥ Monday, February 20, 2012 by donnot
ยท through my inability to accept personal responsibility ยท
756 words ➥ Sunday, February 20, 2011 by donnot
โˆž accepting personal responsibility and the freedom to change โˆž
337 words ➥ Monday, February 20, 2006 by donnot

Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

1) There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and
yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing
that can take precedence of it;--for there is nothing (so effectual)
for which it can be changed.