Prior to my life changing involvement with AA, I was one of the most self-centered people on the planet. I quickly learned that taking and applying the 12 Steps of Recovery would require me to move from Me to We.
Overcoming shame needs to be both immediate and ongoing. It needs to be immediate becauseit will hold us hostage until it causes or death.
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t have to look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. There’s no place like home.”
Today’s podcast is from a speaking event on Saturday, August 15, 2020. I was the keynote speaker at the “Old Timers” meeting at the Salt Lake City, Utah Alano Club. I share my story of my personal recovery and my understanding of what the 12 steps of recovery has to offer those willing to work for it.
If you are a person of recovery believing is foundational to everything we have. As a person of deep faith, my belief is not at the core of who I am; it is the very core of me.
Without inspiration things become old and no longer refreshing. We become stale and stop finding it desirous to grow
It for this very reason I want to challenge you to elevate your thinking and let you know I have found a way to have the best of all worlds. I can stay in the now/day while at least having a major say if not outright controlling what yesterday and tomorrow look like.
One of the most exciting things I have ever read was on page 98 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. It reads “Burn it into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house.”
I look at the moment in time when “I said I can’t do this anymore.” I was literally “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” At that moment, I was reborn for the last time.
So, let’s picture ourselves. If I blame someone for my past then they are responsible for my past. There is one main problem with that. If it’s someone else’s fault that I got where I ended up, do I need someone else to get where I want to go?
letting go is one of the most challenging things we do. What is the connection between something that seems desirable yet challenging?
“Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing and that is not why we are here.”