There are lots that I like as well....

just saw on here ealier, "if you had an allergy to nuts you would not eat nuts and risk your like" "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" although that came from albert enstien...it works really well in AA too

From someone on here GOYA= Get Off Your A**......I still have to remind myself that nothing will change if I dont get up and do something (sheww, the very basic stuff, lol)

KISS Keep It Simple Stupid (though really I dont like the stupid part, we are not stupid just lacking in the proper information :)

For me in early recovery I have remind myself of the very basic stuff all the time

And a really big one that helps me, not sure if its even AA but to think of those crazy thought of reasons I can drink as the "monster" who talks, and I have to fight those thought as the come and truely know they are irrational and untrue!!!

Really I never thought Id addmit it but those little saying in AA do help a lot when my mind is going crazy!!

All I have to do is say no to drinking RIGHT NOW

If you don't remember your last drunk, you haven't had it yet

Hi Ashley and Chris
Ashley thanks with the one about insanity "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" I have another version on that.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and knowing the results."

E.G I would drink all kinds of alcohol and come to with the hangover from hell. Having the worst headache ever not being able to blink or move my head. I would be dry reaching having the taste of that last bit of bile in my mouth. I wouldn't be able to breath through alcohol poisoning.It would last up to three days. Then when I started to feel better I would do it again knowing the results. Totally insane. Only one example.

Chris This is a good one .Though I remember my last drunk.(Day) I don't remember it ,what went on I was a blackout drinker. I pray it was my last one.

God Bless.

Thanks ..

Lionel

It's an old Chinese proverb but it is so true:

"The man takes a drink
The drink takes a drink
The drink takes the man."

Every alcoholic knows it's the first one that will get ya every time.

"I'd rather a frontal labodomy, then a bottle in front of me"
"Whatever you do, even if your arse is falling out of your pants, DON'T PICK UP" - a favourite, told to me many times by an OSM!!!
"Yesterday is the past, Tomorrow is the future, Today is the present, so open that gift right now" ....

my favorite is one my sponsor tells me all the time; F@#K IT.

Ha!!!Yes!! Maur...I heard that one too Ha!! it works whenever.. Kinda Like "I don't know " ,Powerful!!! statement
My fav, "Even if your Ass falls off , put in a bag and Take it to a meeting". Walked to many a Meeting with that bag in my hand Ha!!!
Still sobarr" But for the grace of God" and Y'all:)

I used them as self-talk Lionel, still do. A lot of my thoughts were focused around "need a drink" so I replaced the can'ts and won'ts with cans and wills. Adopted a few affirmations along the way. A few of my favourites...

"Nothing is difficult to the brave and faithful" Family motto

"GOYA"

"IT WILL PASS" I used this during chemo too (sometimes yelled it)

"What the mind expects, it will find"

"If it's worth worrying about, it's worth praying about, and if it's not worth praying about, it's not worth worrying about."

"It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare... It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

sober= short of being entirely ready.

Son
Of a
Bitch,
Everything's
Real
!

Fine.

F**ed Up
Insecure
Neurotic
Emotional

Fear.

F**k
Everything
And
Run

"It gets better" This was said to me at my second AA meeting when I was sitting on the steps in tears. She was right, it did get better, and still does.

"if you Don't stand for Something you''ll fall for Anything"

Easy Does It, but DO it

Just have to add this one before I go to bed!!

What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. BB p. 85

Night all. :)

~Chris