A Life Skills Group Community Group
All are welcome to join our group. We're here to share advice, encouragement, and ideas on how to build better lives for ourselves. We can discuss all aspects of daily living, along with anything else that’s on your mind. Each of us knows a little, and together, we know a lot that can help us each to reach higher and go further in life. There's such a lot...
• 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, page 63
• 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, page 63
Knowing that, sometimes, a person's hurting words and actions are really their pain talking, and not them.
We are all perfect, just the way we are, and we all could use a little work.
Maturity is reaching a level where we can finally let go of that which has brought us the most pain, and just move on. It takes much time, and much effort on our part (it certainly has me, and I am still working on it, though many things I have made peace with), but, it's doable. And, it's a relief not to carry that load of grief and anger anymore. Acceptance, I suppose, at "what was in the past, was"; and "what is in the present, is" and the "future is up for grabs", if we want it, really reach out and grab for it;
My perception is the ability to change my situation is in my hands, most of the time; there are exceptions, like this horrible inability to find a job in my area with my skills, but, for the most part, I have the ability to take the circumstances I am in "by the horns" and "wrestle it down".
Just old Kentucky slang there, folks, from a farmer.