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Post Info TOPIC: JFT August 23 Decision-making


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JFT August 23 Decision-making


August 23

Decision-making

Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse.  Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking.

Basic Text, p. 90

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Life is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences.  When we were using, our decisions were usually driven by our disease, resulting in self-destructive actions and dire consequences.  We came to see decision-making as a rigged game, one we should play as little as possible.

Given that, many of us have great difficulty learning to make decisions in recovery.  Slowly, by working the Twelve Steps, we gain practice in making healthy decisions, ones that give positive results.  Where our disease once affected our will and our lives, we ask our Higher Power to care for us.  We inventory our values and our actions, check our findings with someone we trust, and ask the God of our understanding to remove our shortcomings.  In working the steps we gain freedom from the influence of our disease, and we learn principles of decision-making that can guide us in all our affairs.

Today, our decisions and their consequences need not be influenced by our disease.  Our faith gives us the courage and direction to make good decisions and the strength to act on them.  The result of that kind of decision-making is a life worth living.

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Just for today: I will use the principles of the Twelve Steps to make healthy decisions.  I will ask my Higher Power for the strength to act on those decisions.



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Guru

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I still make a lot of decisions by impulse but I'm working on trying to be more thoughtful about my decisions.

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My decisions were always disease driven fear based reactions. Now, well.......not so much. The solution is in the steps.

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I'm glad it ain't just me. I have consistently made my decisions better one helluva a lot more often than 22 years ago, even better than 10 years ago, but I can still completely ignore the stuff you guys tell me and wind up in some drama. I'm like a rat: "To hell with this cheese just let me outta this trap!"

Lucky, blessed, however you call it ya'll remind me where my best decisions come from!



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Gettin better ,one day at a time!!!smile

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One important thing that I do well is admit when I am wrong. It is one thing to make a bad decision; it is another to insist that it is a good one and not listen to other perspectives.

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