MajestyJo
09-23-2015, 12:27 PM
A recent searching and fearless moral inventory of myself (Step Four) gave me a clear message: Much of my behavior was extremely immature. But what is mature behavior? Obviously the answer is different for each of us, but exploring the question can help me to identify my goals and apply the Al-Anon program as I seek to change this behavior. To me, maturity incluces:
Knowing myself
Asking for help when I need it and acting on my own when I don't
Admitting when I'm wrong and making amends
Accepting love from others, even if I'm having a tough time loving myself
Recognizing that I always have choices, and taking responsibility for the ones I make
Seeing that life is a blessing
Having an opinion without insisting that others share it
Forgiving myself and others
Recognizing my shortcomings and my strengths
Having the courage to live one day at a time
Acknowledging that my needs are my responsibility
Caring for people without having to take care of them.
Accepting that I'll never be finished - I'll always be a work-in-progress.
- Courage to Change (Al-Anon)
Today's Reminder:
Today I can spin a little silk and let it grace everything I touch. I don't have to look back to past ugliness except to learn from it, to enhance the present, and to release whatever beauty is trapped behind old secrets and self-defeating attitudes. One day at a time I can delight in the splendid person I am becoming.
"Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing in loveliness...until it flowers again from within..." - Galway Kinnell
originally posted on my site Soundness of Mind
http://www.animated-gifs.eu/mammals-mice/0199.gif
The Mouse:
Attention to details and examining closely, fastidious, may be getting too locked into details or may need to see them more closely now, need to focus on where your attention is. Are you too quiet or too loud? Mouse can teach lessons of stealth and invisibility for sometimes great strength lies within quietness. Time to be aware of new discoveries and possibilities. Listen to your introspection and intuition.
Knowing myself
Asking for help when I need it and acting on my own when I don't
Admitting when I'm wrong and making amends
Accepting love from others, even if I'm having a tough time loving myself
Recognizing that I always have choices, and taking responsibility for the ones I make
Seeing that life is a blessing
Having an opinion without insisting that others share it
Forgiving myself and others
Recognizing my shortcomings and my strengths
Having the courage to live one day at a time
Acknowledging that my needs are my responsibility
Caring for people without having to take care of them.
Accepting that I'll never be finished - I'll always be a work-in-progress.
- Courage to Change (Al-Anon)
Today's Reminder:
Today I can spin a little silk and let it grace everything I touch. I don't have to look back to past ugliness except to learn from it, to enhance the present, and to release whatever beauty is trapped behind old secrets and self-defeating attitudes. One day at a time I can delight in the splendid person I am becoming.
"Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing in loveliness...until it flowers again from within..." - Galway Kinnell
originally posted on my site Soundness of Mind
http://www.animated-gifs.eu/mammals-mice/0199.gif
The Mouse:
Attention to details and examining closely, fastidious, may be getting too locked into details or may need to see them more closely now, need to focus on where your attention is. Are you too quiet or too loud? Mouse can teach lessons of stealth and invisibility for sometimes great strength lies within quietness. Time to be aware of new discoveries and possibilities. Listen to your introspection and intuition.