What Do You Want 2008 To Be...?

[Phinneas]

Well, first I would like to be happy, joyous and free. Then, world peace, I guess.

I do like the new year. For me, the new year is a fresh new beginning. (Like - remember when we were in school and when we went back each year, that first day was a fresh new start? No homework had been handed in yet, no tests were graded and no mistakes were made. It was a perfect, clean slate.) I love starting back on Step 1 in January in our readings and I like to align my step work to the calendar months.

Somehow it always seems to get off track - my step work, my home work and my resolutions, but just for that day or those glorious few days or weeks, it's all fresh and new again.

For me, the New Year is about possibilities. If I... [insert goal here]... all year, then by this time next year I will be... [insert result].

I am a New Year's resolution person, but I know a lot of people aren't. What about you? What do you want 2008 to look like? Do you have resolutions or just take it one day at a time?


Happy New Year, family. I wish you the very best.

[ANGELINA243]

I want my 2008 to be the year I step out into "the unknown" without fear of failure. I still have problems with worrying about what others think about me and expect of me. I hope I have the courage this year to move forward, not only in my recovery, but also in the direction of my career --and focus on what my HP (Higher Power) has in store for me.

[Sugah]

It's inventory time for me, and though I don't make resolutions, I do like to aim for progress in certain things. Simple things. Sometimes, I look at very concrete things, like trying to be more organized. If I'm slacking on focused meditation, I might aim to spend more time sitting. Right now, I'm looking at my relationships, praying on them, and looking for ways to improve them -- am I giving as well as taking? am I communicating well?

I look at my step work and my service work. Am I giving sponsees enough of my time? Have I over- or under-committed to service? Are my steps taken thoroughly and regularly? Do I wait until day's end to do a 10th step, or is it a step I live in each action, each thought?

So, if I were to answer the question -- what do I want 2008 to look like? I would have to answer that I would like for it to be an ever changing scene as I keep moving forward, making progress, not standing still or sliding backwards.

Happy New Year, everyone.

Peace & Love,
Sugah

[Chance]

Thanks Phinny

What I want is to learn more on acceptance and also divide the two where somethings I don't need to accept while at other times there is. I guess it would be to not only say the Serenity Prayer but to start living it a little bit better.

Happy New Years SR you have saved this addicts LIFE!

[SaTiT]

Normal :rof

I don't even know what that is anymore..or I never knew it to begin with.lol

I can always put my list on my refriggertor again...but I don't have my own refrig anymore.lol
I dun no..maybe if i just focus on a getting a frigg again. I'll get there..lol

Seriousely thou..I've been so cuagth up in someone else..I've lost myself.
I don't even know what I want anymore or if it even matter what I want
anymore.


The posisbilities are there I guess. It's a simple and direct statement
or sentence that i can complete. But it is very difficult for me to
complete at the moment.
As you all know....I'm a little complicated.lol
Somewhere alone the line...as i said, i lost myself. And within me
there was trust, faith, belive,hope....all of which i don't care much
for at the moment.

I hAVE tO WANT IT ...I guess.

Lets see how bad I want it for 2008.lol
maybe I'll look up this thread from time to time to see if i made
any progress..If I'm still alive.

Happy a New Year JZ

[Thundar301]

I would like my 2008 to be a year where my recovery has allowed me to not be in judgement, to remember tolerance, and not to let my temper flare up over situations I can not control,thus wasting good energy, on a negitive output of emotions ( i.e. road rage) I am looking for 2008 to be the year in which I can be able to purchase my 1st house, and continue to become a productive member of my community. But most of all I am looking for 2008 to be just what it is going to be, and hope that I can achive some of the goals I have set for myself during it's year, and if is not to be at least I was alive and clean to see the day, it came! HAPPY NEW YEAR

[hairgirl]

2008 will be the year I get married to the sweetest man on earth.It is also a year, I can continue to grow and let go of the past, and keep making myself healthy.I also want to keep helping other people without some great reward.

[sticker]

I hope in 08 to be a better person then I was in 07. I pray to be a better person tomorrow then I was today. The new yr is always an emotional time for me, It was the beginning of the end for me. The darkest period of my life. So I need to relive that ever yr to remember where i came from and what i need to do to not end up there again. So I deal with the PMS (Pre Medallion Syndrome) I wish everyone here a fantastic 08 full of love, laughter and recovery.

[Doug]

I'm going to work on being a better decision maker. Trying to use a little more patience to consider all my information, and try to use intellect more than emotion when I do so.

[Phinneas]

And I am going to 200give up GUILT!

I've been talking with a very good and dear friend (Carol ) and in the midst of our long conversations, it was like the lights went on, the fireworks shot off and the birds starting singing - you know, one of those "Ah-ha" moments. I realized that I've held myself in bondage all my life over GUILT. And the worst part of it is that 95% of it is perceived guilt. Like, what will that other person think of me? I must be a horrible person for doing [insert anything here]. And so on.

For me, guilt is not having a conscience or wanting to make amends and do better the next time. Guilt is that awful, negative, poisonous feeling that I am not worthy, not good enough, just a plain bad person.

So this new year, 2008, I resolve to let go of GUILT and move right to the healthy actions of making amends for my mistakes, forgiving myself and then doing better the next time.


GREAT shares, family. I am always amazed at how recovery gives us the gifts of being able to look at ourselves in the mirror. To see what WE can do better, instead of constantly pointing the finger outward. Addicts in recovery are damm fine people, and I'm glad to know you all.

[SaTiT]

well i did manage to get a thing or two done.
Maybe I'll make out to the flying club again someday too.

I made this thou..all of the sceneries and the heli's graphics too.
The song is actually call "scrath this." :rof

YouTube - FMS Sim - Raptor V2 , panorama

it dosen't come like that..Just like all of my models and my recovery..it dosen't look like or flies like
according to the blue prints or plans.lol

[Phinneas]

OMG! That's very cool, SaTiT. What is the music behind it? Very cool as well and I think I hear a familiar guitar...?

[Gmoney]

My goals for 2008 are the same as 2007 (which, by the way, was great year!!)

* Stay healthy
*Stay Honest
*Stay Open-minded
*Stay Willing
*Stay Clean