🤦‍♂️ Sometimes, I feel like everyone I work with is an idiot.

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Here’s what's in store for you today:

• ☔️ Daily Motivation: Accepting the Seasons

• 🧐 Let's Learn: Family, Flaws, and Forgiveness

• 🧘🏽 Daily Meditation

• ❓Reader Survey: Is there someone you could forgive?

• 😂 Meme of the Day

☔️ Daily Motivation: Accepting the Seasons ☔️

What season are you in? How can you shift your focus?

🧐 Let's Learn: Family, Flaws, and Forgiveness

We're all human. And as humans, we are all flawed. That's a fact.

So it is almost certain that whatever relationships we have, we will find challenge, heartache, or disappointment. For some of us, that’s an absent father, for others, it’s a sister with a drug problem (or maybe that's us with the drug problem...). We have co-workers who are drama queens or bosses who are a-holes. Each of these situations challenges us to apply the lessons that we’ve learned in our meetings and therapy sessions.

They say that most of human suffering comes from people not living up to the expectations we have for them. If we're angry at someone, we probably need to forgive them for not being perfect. Because, well... we expect the same in return.

Can we learn how to love someone who has trouble loving us back? Can we learn how to forgive someone for their flaws? Can we develop the self-control necessary to not lose our temper when they provoke us or get angry with us? Can we put up appropriate boundaries? Can we say “No” when it’s appropriate and say, “Yes” when someone really needs us, even when it would be easier to focus on our own needs?

Relationships test us, but they also teach us. They bring with them both obstacles and opportunities. What matters, then, is how we respond and who we become in the process. No one ever said that family or friendships would be easy—they just said the trouble would be worth it in the end.

So, take a moment right here.... who in your life could you extend grace and forgiveness towards?

🧘🏽 DAILY MEDITATION 🧘🏽

There's an old saying we sometimes hear in our meetings: "If you want to make God laugh, make plans." When we hear this we usually laugh, too, but there's a nervous edge to our laughter. We wonder if all of our carefully laid plans are doomed to fail. If we're planning a big event - a wedding, a return to school, or perhaps a career change - we begin to wonder if our plans are the same as our Higher Power's plans. We are capable of working ourselves into such a frenzy of worry over this question that we refuse to make any plans at all. But the simple fact is that we really don't know whether our Higher Power's plans for our lives are carved in stone or not. Most of us have opinions about fate and destiny but, whether we believe in such theories or not, we still have a responsibility to live our lives and make plans for the future. If we refuse to accept responsibility for our lives, we're still making plans - plans for a shallow, boring existence. What we make in recovery are plans, not results. We'll never know whether the marriage, the education, or the new job is going to work out until we try it. We simply exercise our best judgment, check with our sponsor, pray, use all the information at hand, and make the most reasonable plans we can. For the rest, we trust in the loving care of the God of our understanding, knowing that we've acted responsibly.

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 ❓READER SURVEY❓

😂 MEME OF THE DAY 😂