Your preflight checklist: think about the day ahead
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Achieving Sanity
Many factors affect my sanity. Maintaining a level of sanity is complicated and difficult. Or so I thought.
One habit at a time
One fellow shared, “I have studied my defects for a long time and came to see that defects are habits—powerful habits.
Clean Dishes
An AA brother who shared at this week’s meeting had a culinary premise.
He began, “last night, I was cleaning up after making supper. I thought, there’s a pattern here. Clean the pot. Cook. Dirty the pot. Clean the pot. Cook. Over and over, it goes.
A Child’s Game
Jenga is a child’s game of blocks and towers; alcoholics play an adult version of Jenga.
The child’s game consists of wooden blocks; the child stacks them up in a tower, then the blocks are removed, one at a time. Eventually, the tower begins to totter. The final block pulled, the tower clatters onto the floor.
My Disease is Doing Pushups
It is often said, “I might be sitting in the rooms of AA, but my disease is in the hallway doing push-ups.”
There is a usual meaning to this phrase: our desire to drink may seem to have vanished, but watch out, it is waiting nearby, and getting stronger while its waiting.