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20/03/2025

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson

GET YOUR HEAD RIGHT!!!!

30/09/2024

ARE WE GETTING BETTER AT THE SKILL OF BEING GRATEFUL??

I’m working on being an expert at it.

Those who have a long list of things they are grateful for, live longer than the general population. Just do it!

25/09/2024

12 years ago, John G. sat between me and my future wife, Robin Palmer Blanche at my home group on Magazine Street. I gently asked him to lean back in his chair, so I could ask her to have coffee after the meeting. I'm grateful to John!

05/09/2024

26/03/2024

Don’t drink, don’t think, go to meetings and be the coffee maker.

01/03/2024

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
"Because someone bumped into me!!!"
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.
Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratitude, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting tendencies?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.

28/12/2023

Don’t try to detox alone…call me.

Cold Turkey

Song by John Lennon

11/06/2023

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

16/02/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/health/narcan-nalaxone-drug-stores.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The overdose reversal drug has been administered mostly by emergency responders and outreach workers. If the agency approves a nonprescription version, it could become as easily available as aspirin.

10/01/2023

Sobriety is like this tree I'm sawing on; If you take away those layers of BS you protected yourself with during addiction you will find something beautiful.
AND
When the problem is this big you might not want to tackle it by yourself.
This tree fell in the front yard of the sober living house.