Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2025, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 24
AA Thought for the Day
To...
January 24
AA Thought for the Day
To grasp the AA program, we have to think things out. Saint Paul said: "They are transformed by the renewing of their minds." We have to learn to think...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-24-2025, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 24
What and why
When there’s...
January 24
What and why
When there’s something you really want to do, you’re sure to get it done. Indeed, you’re likely to do it relatively quickly and effectively.
The trick is zeroing in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-23-2025, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 23
Opportunity of now
Within...
January 23
Opportunity of now
Within arm’s length of where you are right now, exist limitless opportunities to create value. Breathe deeply, smile lovingly, and just do it.
The moment you’re...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2025, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2025, 08:30 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 22
Take time for solitude. How else...
January 22
Take time for solitude. How else can you contemplate the blessings of recovery?
~Abby Warman
Is it human nature to focus on what we lack? We waste many precious hours, hours that...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-22-2025, 08:27 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 22
Act quickly
Deal with...
January 22
Act quickly
Deal with problems in a timely manner and you can prevent them from causing other problems. Seize opportunities in a timely manner and you enable them to spawn other...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-21-2025, 05:12 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 21
To affect the quality of the day...
January 21
To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.
~Henry David Thoreau
We are the sculptors of our day. We can mold it creatively into a wonderful masterpiece....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-21-2025, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 21
Beyond hope
Hope is a great...
January 21
Beyond hope
Hope is a great place to start. Yet for hope to bear fruit, it must inspire action, commitment, and persistence.
A new opportunity, an improvement in circumstances, a...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-20-2025, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 20
I have a dream!
~Martin...
January 20
I have a dream!
~Martin Luther King Jr.
During our addiction, maybe we dreamed of joy and laughter with our family - only to find tears and anger. Maybe we dreamed of respect at...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-19-2025, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 27
Daily Reflections
FREEDOM...
January 27
Daily Reflections
FREEDOM FROM GUILT
Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word
"blame" from our speech and thought.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-19-2025, 06:56 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 26
Daily Reflections
RIGOROUS...
January 26
Daily Reflections
RIGOROUS HONESTY
Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant?
Who wants to confess his faults to another and make
restitution for harm done? Who cares...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-17-2025, 05:50 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 17
I look in the mirror through the...
January 17
I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
~Judy Collins
It's been said that the primary task of a parent is to awaken the spirit of the child. Many of us...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-17-2025, 05:48 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 17
Break the pattern
...
January 17
Break the pattern
Frustration will cause you to make foolish mistakes. Let it go, calm down, and become more effective.
You have multiple reasons to be frustrated by all the...
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Forum: New Member Check In
01-16-2025, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 1,011
Views: 420,069
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Forum: New Member Check In
01-16-2025, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 1,011
Views: 420,069
Hello, I am an alcoholic and my problem is...
Hello, I am an alcoholic and my problem is Richard. My sober date is 08/22/2021 and today I am grateful for my sobriety and I show gratitude by not drinking today.
Born in Ohio and loving my...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
01-16-2025, 10:31 AM
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Replies: 0
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The Greater Good
What all of us who are new to recovery are drawn to none of us can be quite sure what exactly that is at this moment, but one thing that we're all sure of that we all can sense, that whatever this is...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-16-2025, 07:03 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 16
It is much more difficult to...
January 16
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a person of wisdom.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-16-2025, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 16
Growing set of tools
...
January 16
Growing set of tools
Capability, and putting that capability to use, gives you ownership. It gives you ownership over your own life and over your own corner of the universe.
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2025, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 25
Daily Reflections
WHAT WE...
January 25
Daily Reflections
WHAT WE NEED - EACH OTHER
. . . . A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker,
"You are an A.A. member if you say so . . . nobody can
keep you out."
TWELVE...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2025, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 24
Daily Reflections
GETTING...
January 24
Daily Reflections
GETTING INVOLVED
There is action and more action. "Faith without works
is dead." . . . To be helpful is our only aim.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , pp. 88-89
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-15-2025, 07:47 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 23
Daily Reflections
HAVING FUN...
January 23
Daily Reflections
HAVING FUN YET?
. . . we aren't a glum lot. If newcomers could see no
joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn't want it. We
absolutely insist on enjoying...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-14-2025, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 14
Off the Hook
We can learn...
January 14
Off the Hook
We can learn not to get hooked into unhealthy, self-defeating behaviors in relationships - behaviors such as caretaking, controlling, discounting ourselves, and...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-14-2025, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 14
The honest option
Honesty...
January 14
The honest option
Honesty works better than any alternative. Be honest with yourself, with others, and you’ll always have something useful to offer.
It’s easy for your thoughts to...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-13-2025, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 13
We can’t really forgive another...
January 13
We can’t really forgive another until first we have forgiven ourselves.
~Tian Dayton
Forgiveness is not merely something that occurs in one dramatic moment, ending long enmity or...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-13-2025, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 13
Your best choice
If the end...
January 13
Your best choice
If the end is in sight, keep going. When the end is not in sight, keep going.
Sometimes events will break in your favor. Use those times to consolidate your gains...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2025, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 22
Daily Reflections
"LET'S...
January 22
Daily Reflections
"LET'S KEEP IT SIMPLE"
A few hours later I took my leave of Dr. Bob. . . The
wonderful, old, broad smile was on his face as he said
almost jokingly, "Remember,...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2025, 07:26 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 21
Daily Reflections
SERVING MY...
January 21
Daily Reflections
SERVING MY BROTHER
The member talks to the newcomer not in a spirit of power but in a
spirit of humility and weakness.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE p. 279
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2025, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 20
Daily Reflections
"WE PAUSE...
January 20
Daily Reflections
"WE PAUSE . . . AND ASK"
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or
doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.87
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2025, 07:20 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 19
Daily Reflections
...
January 19
Daily Reflections
ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through
us, or we perish.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.16
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-12-2025, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 12
Defects keep us stuck.
We...
January 12
Defects keep us stuck.
We complicate Step Six by trying to determine whether or not we are "entirely ready" to give up some character traits. Many have become strangely cherished by...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-11-2025, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 11
Reflection for the Day
In...
January 11
Reflection for the Day
In the past, and sometimes even now, I automatically have thought "Why me?" when I'm trying to learn that my first problem is to accept my present...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-11-2025, 05:38 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 12
Live with richness
Today...
January 12
Live with richness
Today comes to you with multiple opportunities for richness. To see those opportunities, look around with an open heart and an open mind.
There are people in...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-10-2025, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 10
It Takes a Community
What I...
January 10
It Takes a Community
What I discovered about recovery was that there were people willing to help me, support me, and show me how they got sober - how they stayed sober, you know. I...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-09-2025, 04:00 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 9
Expressing love
As we...
January 9
Expressing love
As we recover, we come to realize the presence of a Higher Power in our lives. Eventually we realize how much progress in recovery comes through our Higher Power. We...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-09-2025, 03:38 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 9
Seek competence
Seek...
January 9
Seek competence
Seek competence. Create it, make use of it, admire it, learn from it, expand on it.
All kinds of possibilities swirl around in chaos and uncertainty. With...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2025, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 18
Daily Reflections
WOULD A...
January 18
Daily Reflections
WOULD A DRINK HELP?
By going back in our drinking histories, we could show
that years before we realized it we were out of control,
that our drinking even then...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2025, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 17
Daily Reflections
HAPPINESS...
January 17
Daily Reflections
HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY
"The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded
that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in
just the particular order...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-08-2025, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 16
Daily Reflections
HITTING...
January 16
Daily Reflections
HITTING BOTTOM
Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom
first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try
to practice the A.A. program...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-07-2025, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 7
"Why are you rushing so much?"...
January 7
"Why are you rushing so much?" asked the rabbi. "I'm rushing after my livelihood," the man answered.
"And how do you know," said the rabbi, "that your livelihood is running on before...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-07-2025, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 7
Gray area
It’s tempting to...
January 7
Gray area
It’s tempting to see various issues as either all one way or all the other way. But most things aren’t as simple as that.
Life is a complex affair, and the people who...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-06-2025, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 6
Let go and let God.
~Twelve...
January 6
Let go and let God.
~Twelve Step slogan
This is when we need to slow down and take a look at what's going on. We're feeling this way because we’re off our recovery path. We may be...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-06-2025, 05:59 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 6
Fear of missing out
As long...
January 6
Fear of missing out
As long as you’re engaged in what’s useful and meaningful, don’t worry about what you might be missing. That worry will only distract you from the good you’re...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2025, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 15
Daily Reflections
AN...
January 15
Daily Reflections
AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE
With few exceptions our members find that they have
tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they
presently identify with their...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2025, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2025, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 13
Daily Reflections
IT DOESN'T...
January 13
Daily Reflections
IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily
reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2025, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,143
January 12
Daily Reflections
ACCEPTING...
January 12
Daily Reflections
ACCEPTING OUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES
Our very first problem is to accept our present
circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the
people about us as...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-05-2025, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 5
He who distributes the milk of...
January 5
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
~James Barrie
We like ourselves best when we like those around us. When we smile at them....
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
01-04-2025, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 905
In This Together
What we all have in common with each other and what brings all of us together will be so confusing to all of us in the beginning of our recovery because there are so many different paths that all of...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-04-2025, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,227
January 4
AA Thought for the Day
...
January 4
AA Thought for the Day
Strength comes from coming to believe in a Higher Power that can help you. You can't define this Higher Power, but you can see how it helps other alcoholics....
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
01-04-2025, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 6,963
January 5
Investment of this day
Today...
January 5
Investment of this day
Today you’ll invest time, energy, thought, and effort. You’ll use skills, experience, wisdom and insight to do so.
Are you clear about your priorities for...
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