“I don’t have enough time!” How often in our disease do we tell ourselves this kind of self-limiting phrases? Since we are starting a new year, why not take a minute to check the time? The Four Quadrants of Our Time*: On a blank page, we draw a cross, and estimate the time we spend. […]
Continue reading →One member settled her last credit card debt at the end of the year. She had faithfully chipped away at the amount over her five years of steady D.A. recovery. It wasn’t easy. She reflected on how manageable the program of recovery is once she surrendered her pride and trusted the process: “After months of making […]
Continue reading →In business there is a lot of talk about the ability to grow a business by repeating successes over time In ever increasing numbers and efficiencies – I.e., “economies of scale”. But consider how the secret of scale begins with one idea: the individual. It’s obvious that people are the ones who buy goods and […]
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, […]
Continue reading →The ghost led Ebenezer Scrooge through a vision of the future in which he saw his own death. Struck by the fact that there were no mourners he asked, “does no one celebrate this man’s life?” He was then shown his customers, celebrating that their mortgages might be forgotten, and thieves, joyfully stealing the […]
Continue reading →DA is better off when it’s members don’t identify themselves as members in the media. Members are better, off too, when they participate anonymously as far as the media is concerned. If one member went public with their membership and later became embroiled in a public financial conflict, it could reflect negatively on DA. But when we […]
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