Today's Thought - March

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March 10

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

~Don Marquis

We were constant procrastinators before we began our Twelve Step program. Addiction created the habit of delay because, as long as we had our substance, everything else could wait.

Now we know that action truly is the magic word. The slogan “Easy does it” doesn’t mean to put things off. It means to do it, but to do it in God’s good time. Slow growth doesn’t mean postponement.

We can’t put off airing problems to other people for fear of being ridiculed. We need answers early during our progress. When we attempt to ask for solutions, we can be clear and direct in our questions. We know our friends will always give us the right to be wrong and quickly correct faulty thinking.

I can solve problems just by pressing on. Procrastination is not living one day at a time. I will do today what I am meant to do today.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations*