Monday, Sept. 5, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
You can be anything you want to be if you want it bad enough and are willing to work for it. —Mardy Kopischke
Being anything we want to be sounds too good to be true. The key, of course, is being willing to work for what we want. Perfectionistic though we may be, it’s still likely that most of us want to excel in every pursuit without the necessary hard work: Playing golf four times should mean no more whiffs. Being on the job nearly every day of the month should mean mastery of our career. There’s a difference, however, between being perfectionistic and working hard.
Knowing that a hobby, a task, a sport, requires hard work shouldn’t take the fun out of it but often does. We mistakenly think that we have chosen an impossible sport if we fail to demonstrate improvement each time we play. But we can learn how to do a task if we are willing to focus our undivided attention on it. Only then can we understand its subtleties. Only then can we be open to the help our Higher Power has promised.
I will be willing to work hard on every task I face today. With hard work and the willingness to practice, I will improve.
Hazelden Foundation
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