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Step 7
Hi guys, just looking for some advice .....Humbly ask him to remove our shortcomings - I'm a year sober, gone through the programme and I still struggle with my ego and getting out of self (I'm a lot better than I used to be) but was there anything that helped you get out of self? I pray.....I try and practice it but I still have this awareness of it.
I'm so grateful to be where I am today and my life has literally turned around since I got sober which I never thought possible.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Peace.
I'm so grateful to be where I am today and my life has literally turned around since I got sober which I never thought possible.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Peace.
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Peaceinsilence, well done that is a great achievement. A year working the programme it would be great to know more about your journey, I am sure I would learn something.
I have recently started back at AA and find meetings incredibly helpful. I look forward to them they are peaceful place where I can listen and reflect on my condition and focus on how to recover.
I have recently started back at AA and find meetings incredibly helpful. I look forward to them they are peaceful place where I can listen and reflect on my condition and focus on how to recover.
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For me instead of saying why are you like this (meaning someone else), why are you driving so slow, why are you acting like that, etc... I reverse it and ask myself what I am doing wrong here, why am I so special that people have to drive as I see fit, or act a certain way. Usually helps to correct myself and my actions VS trying to correct someone else's.
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Originally Posted by DreamCatcher17 
For me instead of saying why are you like this (meaning someone else), why are you driving so slow, why are you acting like that, etc... I reverse it and ask myself what I am doing wrong here, why am I so special that people have to drive as I see fit, or act a certain way. Usually helps to correct myself and my actions VS trying to correct someone else's.
This is brilliant!!!! Wonderful advice!
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Originally Posted by Gerard52
Peaceinsilence, well done that is a great achievement. A year working the programme it would be great to know more about your journey, I am sure I would learn something.
I have recently started back at AA and find meetings incredibly helpful. I look forward to them they are peaceful place where I can listen and reflect on my condition and focus on how to recover.
I have recently started back at AA and find meetings incredibly helpful. I look forward to them they are peaceful place where I can listen and reflect on my condition and focus on how to recover.
Wishing you much luck and happiness.
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Originally Posted by DreamCatcher17
For me instead of saying why are you like this (meaning someone else), why are you driving so slow, why are you acting like that, etc... I reverse it and ask myself what I am doing wrong here, why am I so special that people have to drive as I see fit, or act a certain way. Usually helps to correct myself and my actions VS trying to correct someone else's.
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I can be quite intolerant and impatient with strangers. I am practising being nice to people and make my encounters pleasant. It works I feel myself slowing down and not feeling irritated, I am also not self hating about why I was horrible.
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