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  Tim V January 12, 2026 at 4:48am

  

  I have the opportunity to set healthy boundaries. In as much as I understand the necessity to be at my best for others, as a "people pleaser" in recovery it's time to evaluate the health and quality of the relationships with myself and others. Too often I back away from conflict to keep the peace and be accepted. I must be mindful while setting boundaries. It isn't about getting others to be different. It's about setting a boundary that allows space for me to be different.
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  Tim V January 11, 2026 at 8:53am

  

  I can rise above my present circumstances. I take survey of the circumstances as I deal with cancer and the meds that drag me down. But yet, I take survey of circumstances of others about me, in their lives, and how I must be a positive influence. This is an exercise in acceptance and willingness when I do it rightly. I must avoid turning these realistic surveys of circumstances into unrealistic alibis for apathy, defeatism and procrastination. I can find a realistic humility with willingness rightly directed, to utilize what energy I have, and rise above my present circumstances.
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  Tim V January 10, 2026 at 7:24am

  maturity of spirit is my guide these days. I've got the "booze cure" figured out but yet, I can be emotionally immature. It's emotional sobriety I seek through spiritual maturity. It's through a right spirit of thought and action. It's a mental conviction of spirit to move into mature emotional results. Faulty and immature emotional dependencies were my flaw. I find emotional sobriety and maturity by moving forward toward spirituality.
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  Tim V January 9, 2026 at 7:30am

  

  I can take the time to make a list. A list of needs at the start of my day. A list of gratitude at the end. I have to be mindful with my first list to stop and ask myself; "Is this a want or a need?". I find my "wants" tend to be selfish and lend themselves toward a short-term obsession. My "needs" are realistic, basic, and tend to provide lasting good. I'll go about my day based on need, small wins pile up, and I find at the end of the day it's time for another list. A list of gratitude for time well spent and relationships enhanced, I left my world in a better place today, I smile and I rest well knowing I get to do it all again tomorrow.
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  Tim V January 8, 2026 at 7:11am

  

  there's more to living in recovery. Not drinking is just a start. If I were to believe not drinking is all there is to recovery, why would I need AA or a higher power? In answering that question I start with the Big Book, page 64. It tells me that my liquor was but a symptom, and that I should start again each day at looking into the causes and conditions. I should start by working the steps and discussing them with my sponsor. I should start with maintenance of my spiritual condition. I should start by serving others. Through that I start to change in significant ways. A start each day sufficient to bring about recovery.
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  Tim V January 7, 2026 at 6:05am

  

  I have a goal to live with integrity.
  It says that I'd live with moral and ethical values. It says that I'd admit my wrongs and to change in a positive way. it says I'd be complete and whole, the total package of goodness. I find integrity also involves a great deal of humility to fit into the lives of others in a meaningful way. I can find serenity, happiness and peace by living with integrity.
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  Tim V January 6, 2026 at 6:28am

  I know of the effort it will take to live in recovery. I also know of the effort it took to live in addiction. It took 30 years of daily effort to be adept at resentment, selfishness, self-pity and dishonesty. I know it will take the same 30 years of daily effort to be adept at acceptance, humility, gratitude and honesty. It's a positive spiritual movement and change. I'll give it my best effort.
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  DuncanFloyd January 5, 2026 at 1:48pm

  I dreamt I was at a wine tasting. I don't even like wine. I am grateful I woke up sober.
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  Tim V January 5, 2026 at 6:58am

  

  I embrace the advantages of mindful solitude. I vividly recall my addictive life, hiding in isolation, alone, and not wanting anything to do with others. In recovery and mindful solitude each morning, I am not alone. I meditate on my spiritual condition, provide maintenance to it, if need be, and meditate on the goodness of spirit within others. In mindful solitude I can identify the spiritual principals that will guide me this day. It's mindful solitude that brings me a renewed attitude of gratitude to actively participate in life.
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  Tim V January 4, 2026 at 5:14am

  I can decide to be open and receptive to the spiritual messages that come my way. So often I'm only focused and directed on my purpose and things that I control. In recovery I find its important for me to stop, slow down, take a step back, observe the spirit within myself, to be receptive of the spirit within others about me, and receptive of the spirit within nature. It is then that I experience more of life. I can "stop and smell the roses" as they say. Then I proceed knowing I can be mindful of moments ahead to be receptive of life's spiritual messages yet again.