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Step III . Section I
Control
As much as we might want to control what other people and the rest of the world do, we can't. The truth is we can be responsible only for ourselves--our own actions and attitudes. Everything else is beyone our control. In AA we hear the serintiy prayer:
God crant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference."
1. Look back at your lists in question 3 of step on. there you listed some things you can control and some things you can't. Using the serenity prayer as your guide, check your lists. Would you move anything from one column to the otehr? Can you think of anything you might add?
Try to add three mre things that you can't control and three more things you can. Rember you CAN control your own actions and attitudes.
Quote: I think proably ninety perscent of life is beyond our control--the weather, other people, happenstance......I worry that things will happen tomy daughter, but there's only so much I can do. I can lock the household poisons in a cabinet, but I can't control a drunk driver who runs a red light. Worrying about uncontrollable things just robs us of the time we have---Julia
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