Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
Time spent attempting to change others affords little time for personal change.
We must be willing to change or we wouldn't be reading these words right now. However, being willing to change is often easier than doing it. One of the biggest changes most of us need to make is learning to let others be who they are, regardless of who we want them to be. Most of us think our lives would be far smoother and more productive if only other people lived up to our standards. How wrong we are!
It we could change others as we wish, we would live far less enlightened lives. In fact, we discover opportunities for personal development in our interactions with the men and women who frustrate us so. The irony is that we wish they'd change, but if they did, we wouldn't experience the growth we deserve.
I will enhance my growth today by letting others be who they are and working on myself.
We must be willing to change or we wouldn't be reading these words right now. However, being willing to change is often easier than doing it. One of the biggest changes most of us need to make is learning to let others be who they are, regardless of who we want them to be. Most of us think our lives would be far smoother and more productive if only other people lived up to our standards. How wrong we are!
It we could change others as we wish, we would live far less enlightened lives. In fact, we discover opportunities for personal development in our interactions with the men and women who frustrate us so. The irony is that we wish they'd change, but if they did, we wouldn't experience the growth we deserve.
I will enhance my growth today by letting others be who they are and working on myself.
I'm sure there will be a few that read this will identify what is being said.
Off topic to the post "Without change there can be no growth"
All we can control is our reaction to others. When we learn to point that desire to change at ourselves and act upon it, we can't help but enhance our growth.
Bigbear, it sounds like you want a blueprint. Those reading this have to take responsiblity for implimenting it. Just because somebody is new to DS or recovery doesn't cancel out their ability to help themselves.
What a great reading for the end of my day gjm, and a powerful sentence. "The irony is that we wish they'd change, but if they did, we wouldn't experience the growth we deserve." Desire, willingness, change and worth. What a nice cycle to be a part of. Certainly beats the one I was in. Always learning and growing.
How does one begin to do that without a blueprint??
If you feel you need a blueprint you create one for yourself or seek out an already exsisting one that makes sense for you.
That can certainly include asking for it.