Its really pretty simple if your not wiling to change there is no room for growth.

~Amen~

"We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view"
AA BB P.52

I am willing to change cars when the old one is broken.

Yes. I am willing to change. HELL yes I am. My old ways don't work, and haven't for a long time.

PEACE

What you are expressing is the reason I try never say I've got it or why I get it or how I got it. I'm not always succesfsul but am very mindful of it. There is no it. All I have is a degree. When I say that I've got it I believe I'm convincing myself that I have reached my goal. My goal is not have the desire removed. Ofcourse that is the first priority but by far even a fraction of my purpose. So maybe the better way to express that I idea is that I'm getting it and will continue to get it until the end. That is as long as I work for it. As always this is my percepting and it has served me well. Thanx for listening. Lisa

Honesty, Open Mindedness and Willingness. Sobriety, love your work. An older sober member said in a meeting years ago, "If I get to the point of thinking, "Yes, I've got this spiritulity thing llicked!", she, ironically is back to the drawing board because there is no humility snd we are human and cannot be perfect - but we AIM for perfection none the less.

I always heard you can't stay sober or even remain reasonably sane on yesterday sobriety... Oh!! and then they mentioned, complacency and how it is seriously inefficient and could make one dangerously capable of picking up the first drink which in the AA dictionary is insanity, or as Arnie used to call it "The sucker drink", or was suckie!!! Anyway i stay away from those mind -sets as much as possible. Showing up for life through some type of action much more efficient for continued sobriety.
nice post,
Billy

I tend to agree with you gim, when one lets selfish, self-centerness, and fear dominate their daily affairs....disaster is not far behind.

I am sober, and I am happy, is there room for improvement...yes, of course there is! I don't call this self-satisfaction at all.......I call it Gratitude. I didn't get sober to be miserable, I had enough of that and what would be the point of getting and staying sober if everyday was a struggle.

No, I am one who point blank declares that a power greater than myself has restored me to sanity. I understand the requirements to keep it. Gratitude is an action word.

Change happens every day of your life, even if you grow one day older, it's what we do with that growth that matters and mostly if we appreciate it.

Peace!

I have learned to laugh at myself today.

Whenever I start thinking I've "arrived", God has a way of throwing me a curve ball. It's then that I realize that he's probably laughing at me too, lol.

Ah yes, so happy to be a work in progress. Always open minded to a new way to look at life and the changes I must work on within me.

I don't have to be beaten into willingess to change today. My pain threshhold is much lower nowadays!

I laugh too Glad, and just did when you mentioned Gods curve balls. It's much easier to cope with life when you have willingness in your heart to change.