Wednesday December 10, 2025

Thought of the day      

  "I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing. 

I got caught up in the 12 Steps and being sober. It just feels right..."  

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 We often hear it said in meetings that we should "stick with the winners." 

Who are the winners in the program? Winners are easily identified.

They work an active program of recovery, living in the solution and staying out of the problem. Winners are always ready to reach their hands out to the newcomer. They have sponsors and work with those sponsors. Winners stay sober and clean, one day at a time.

 Winners are recovering alcoholics and addicts who keep a positive frame of mind.

 They may be going through troubled times, but they still attend meetings and share openly about it. Winners know in their hearts that, with the help of a Higher Power, nothing will come along that is too much to handle. Winners strive for unity in their service efforts. 

Winners practice putting "principles before personalities." 

Winners remember the principle of anonymity, doing the principled action no matter who is involved. Winners keep a sense of humor. Winners have the ability to laugh at themselves.

And when winners laugh, they laugh with you, not at you. Any one of us can be considered a winner. All of us exhibit some of the traits of the winner; sometimes we come very close to the ideal, sometimes we don't. If we are sober and clean today and working our program to the best of our ability, we are winners!  

Committment for the Day

 I will strive to fulfill my ideals. I will be a winner.  
 

One Day at A Time