“Pretending to be a nice person is a lot like being a nice person” -Bill Dogterom
I am responsible for my attitude, my thoughts, my posture.
My morning/daily routine:
- I work to monitor my attitude to maintain gratitude and humility and ask God for help to remain in that posture, I discuss my challenges with loved ones prayerfully and use writing and grounding/meditation tools when necessary.
- I wake up and immediately start praying to try to squash self ambition and vein conceit, often repeatedly and throughout the day:
“God, please direct my thinking, especially that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest, and self-seeking motives. Show me throughout the day what my next step will be. Give me whatever I need to take care of whatever problems I may face. Help me especially, Lord, to be free from self-will. God, show me the way of patience, tolerance, kindness, and love. Save me from being angry. Please remove fear from me and direct me to what you would have me be. How can I be helpful to others? I pray for the willingness to be willing. God, I offer myself to you – to build with me and to do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do your will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Your Power, Your Love, and Your Way of life. May I do Your will always. God, take me in. Be the focus of my heart and mind. Please help me to renew myself. I know you will never fail me. My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me – good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength Lord, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.”
- I read the bible “Verse of the day” and select “Read Full Chapter” and study it from this app: https://www.bible.com/app
- I have this bookmarked: https://www.aahappyhour.com/aa-daily-readings/ and study all of the readings.
- I read the days reading https://utmost.org/updated/today for some wisdom and use this app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utmost-daily-devotional/id6748482447
- I meditate on what I am grateful for and compose a list and share it with my community of faithful partners.
- I work to monitor my attitude to maintain gratitude and humility and ask God for help to remain in that posture, I discuss my challenges with loved ones prayerfully and use writing and grounding/meditation tools when necessary.
