If your desire is to be the best merely for its own sake, you will strive and struggle against a world that absolutely does not care. If, on the other hand, your most abiding desire is to make a positive difference, you will surely end up being the best at some particular thing or another.
The real substance of accomplishment is never in the trophies or the praise or the recognition it brings. The substance of accomplishment is in the value it delivers. ~Ralph Marston
The real substance of accomplishment is never in the trophies or the praise or the recognition it brings. The substance of accomplishment is in the value it delivers. ~Ralph Marston
Today I am grateful...
- that most days gratitude serves as a bumper to guard against my running willy nilly into stinking thinking
- that yesterday that bumper didn't work for one split second and I got really pissy on the phone, but today I can make that amends easily
- that I have been granted probation--the terms of which are simple: don't drink or use drugs, and work the Steps
- that I started this list earlier and thought it published. Thanks, Pam.
In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension-freedom under God as we understand Him. ~Bill W, letter, 1966
3 comments:
Ahhh, the power of gratitude!
Amends are a wonderful, life-saving, thing.
I can't imagine you talking pissy. I can however, see you clearly running willy nilly.
It's so nice having a "rule book" for living!
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