Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
With a little effort, assets can be enhanced.
When we prepare to work our first Fourth Step we shudder, certain we’ll fail to discover a single asset. It’s okay to ask other people how they did a Fourth Step and what assets they recognize in us. Getting over the resistance to doing this Step is what’s important at this stage of our growth. We all have assets. Maybe they don’t seem as numerous as our liabilities, but we can identify our assets and work to accentuate them each day.
It’s easy to take other people’s inventories, easier than taking our own. We had taken lots of inventories before discovering a Twelve Step program. But now we need to focus exclusively on our own inventory. We can’t expect to change in ways that enhance our well-being if we don’t give careful attention to all our parts. While it’s true that some of our parts may be enviable already, other parts may need work. We can add them to the “enviable” list by practicing healthy ways of interacting every time we are tempted to be critical of others.
It becomes a challenge, one that we’ll enjoy, when we decide to emphasize our assets, watching how they change our lives.
I will accentuate my positives today and have a lot more fun.
Hazelden Foundation
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