Set a Shining Example - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

**Ann** · 01-23-2007, 03:32 AM

The world around you will follow the example that you set. The shortcomings in others that frustrate you the most are able to do so because they resonate with similar shortcomings in your own life.

Make improvements in your own attitude and behavior, and you'll see corresponding improvements in those around you. Focus your own thoughts on the positive possibilities, and others will pick up on and emulate that focus.

Stop searching for blame and start mending what's broken. Stop seeking to judge and start putting your values into positive, productive action.

Your influence is far greater than you now realize. Use that influence wisely, to build, to grow, and to improve everything with which you are connected.

Every achievement, every injustice, every inspiration, every frustration that you notice has something to teach you about yourself. Learn the lessons well, apply them with true commitment, and you'll change your world as well as yourself.

Set a shining example with the way you live each day. For life is watching and busily following along with your every move.

-- Ralph Marston

Copyright ©2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

**Ann** · 01-23-2007, 03:35 AM

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Make improvements in your own attitude and behavior, and you'll see corresponding improvements in those around you. Focus your own thoughts on the positive possibilities, and others will pick up on and emulate that focus.

Recovery has taught me that life is all about attitude. Life can be as beautiful or as ugly as my mind's eye allows me to see it. Keeping a positive attitude helps my world remain beautiful even on stormy days.

Hugs

Sober_John · 01-23-2007, 06:36 AM

Don't follow this example (Who's in Charge?)

**51anna** · 01-23-2007, 02:41 PM

It IS all about attitude, isn't it Ann!

hope3 · 01-23-2007, 02:50 PM

Thank-you Ann, this is so true.

I can always find someone either better off or worst off than I am.

That should not concernme........What should concern me is what I can do to make me a better, happier person.....that will reflect in how I treat others.

And as my signature says..........................

01-23-2007, 03:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,023	Set a Shining Example The world around you will follow the example that you set. The shortcomings in others that frustrate you the most are able to do so because they resonate with similar shortcomings in your own life. Make improvements in your own attitude and behavior, and you'll see corresponding improvements in those around you. Focus your own thoughts on the positive possibilities, and others will pick up on and emulate that focus. Stop searching for blame and start mending what's broken. Stop seeking to judge and start putting your values into positive, productive action. Your influence is far greater than you now realize. Use that influence wisely, to build, to grow, and to improve everything with which you are connected. Every achievement, every injustice, every inspiration, every frustration that you notice has something to teach you about yourself. Learn the lessons well, apply them with true commitment, and you'll change your world as well as yourself. Set a shining example with the way you live each day. For life is watching and busily following along with your every move. -- Ralph Marston Copyright ©2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~

01-23-2007, 06:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
Sober_John Employment Exertion Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: WV USA Posts: 751	Don't follow this example (Who's in Charge?) __________________ We know from long experience that if [former prisoners] canâ€™t find work, or a home, or help, they are much more likely to commit more crimes and return to prison. America is the land of the second chance.

01-23-2007, 02:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
51anna Forum Leader Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dancing in the Light Posts: 11,020	It IS all about attitude, isn't it Ann! __________________ Anna "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

01-23-2007, 02:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
hope3 Hope3 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upstate, NY Posts: 2,023	Thank-you Ann, this is so true. I can always find someone either better off or worst off than I am. That should not concernme........What should concern me is what I can do to make me a better, happier person.....that will reflect in how I treat others. And as my signature says.......................... __________________ If I focus on the solutions, the problems won't seem impossible!

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