Thought for today: There is no magic spell to increase your income. It takes creativity, focus, hard work, passion and discipline to create wealth, or anything of value. Creativity means trusting your instincts enough to test them out in the laboratory of life. It means choosing where to focus your effort between competing interests. Many alternatives […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When we work on creating a new Vision Board for the future, what happens next is that we start to open up to the possibility. We do our part to understand everything about it. We consider the Vision as a valuable inspiration. A member shares about Vision Boards: “Once a month my DA group has us […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Determination and will power are qualities worth drawing on sometimes, but not always. At work, they can help us accomplish goals, solve problems and meet deadlines. But will power can also lead us away from better choices. What we see as reality today may be obscured by old character defects such as self-centered fear and pride. If that’s the case, determination […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Imagination is a wonderful tool. When channeled properly, it can inspire great innovation, spark the discovery of solutions to vexing problems, and improve life. Imagination can also deconstruct, destroy what has been built, and cause troubles. Just watch the news. So it’s logical to say that imagination is not good or bad, it just is. […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: A great power in our lives is our intention. Actors study a characters intention in each scene. They decide on the purpose of each moment from scene to scene. When done well, the performance is honest and compelling. When not cultivated well, the results are uneven. The same principle applies to Visions. […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Sometimes to recover from compulsive debting it helps to develop our Visions for the future. A Vision board helps us map out where we want to head in the future, to make our Action Plan a reality. We cut pictures out of magazines, and make collages with the things we want to get, do […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When we first walk into a Visions meeting we may feel like a child, and kind of silly. What is the point of taking scissors t paper and pasting images from magazines? In the program we talk a lot about Visions – our hopes, dreams and goals for the future. If we […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When we explore our vision for the future, cutting out images from magazines of things we’d like to have, or writing our affirmations, we are honoring our Higher Power’s inspiration. Freeing our imaginations, we let our Higher Power work through us. We look at these images and affirmations from time to time […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: One member won a lottery and was shortly in worse debt than ever. How could this have happened? They had forgotten (or had never learned) the lessons humility teaches. They stopped humbly tracking their money and working the Twelve Tools. They stopped growing along spiritual lines through the Twelve Steps. Old timers […]
Continue reading →“As a year comes to an end, it always helps me to reflect on where I’ve been and where I’m heading,” says one long time member. “I learn from my past, and re-reinvigorate my visions and resolutions for the new year.” “First, I usually try to get an understanding of where I stand in life, […]
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