TOPICS 8/14/25💌
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he had hurt, and in what ways.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 77
EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING
2) Often when we’re being tough and strong, we’re scared. It takes a lot of courage to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to be soft.
–Dudley Martineau
Exposing who we really are invites judgment, sometimes rejection. It’s a terribly hard risk to take, and the rewards are seldom immediate. But with time, others respect us for our vulnerability and begin to imitate our example. We are served well by our integrity, in due time.
Letting others see who we really are alleviates confusion, theirs and ours. We no longer need to decide who we should be; we simply are who we are. Our choices are simplified. There is only one appropriate choice to every situation–the one that is honest and wholly reflective of who we are at that moment.
GUTTER BRAVADO
3)– Alone and unemployable, he was given two options by the court, get help or go to jail, and his journey toward teachability began.
QUOTE –Jim Rohn
4) We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”