Easy Does It

 "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
~ Norman Vincent Peale

A.A. Thought for the Day

Another of the mottoes of A.A. is "Easy Does It." This means that we just go along in A.A. doing the best we can and not getting steamed up over problems that arise in A.A. or outside of it. We alcoholics are emotional people and we have gone to excess in almost everything we have done. We have not been moderate in many things. We have not known how to relax. Faith in a Higher Power can help us to learn to take it easy. We are not running the world. I am only one among many. We are resolved to live normal, regular lives. From our A.A. experience we learn that "easy does it." Have I learned to take it easy?

Going about life without taking anything personally was an alien concept to me when I came into AA. I have heard some in the program say that before coming into A.A. the world seemed full of assholes - but today assholes seem to be very rare. Have a great day.

~ Mike