Thought for today: If we ever saw our entire life’s transformation all at once – fast forward like a time-lapse movie of a flower blossoming – we would be overwhelmed. Time serves a purpose. We need time to learn to trust change. Time is our friend, and slow growth is sustainable growth. We can learn to trust the process of […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Most of us would have gone to any length to get credit. When the well dried up, and our credit card applications declined, we knew disastrous times lay ahead – late fees, family rejection, the threat of electricity being shut off, lost health insurance, or worse, losing our home. We were powerless over debt, and yet […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: The end of the year is the perfect time to focus on where we’ve been and where we want to be. The destination is the journey. It’s a more pleasant journey when we know where we want to go. A member shares: “When the year begins, it helps me to take an inventory on where I’ve been and where […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Our self-talk can affect real change in our lives. They can enable wealth to start flowing in. They can also cause unexpected effects we need to consider. One thing to be careful of is to pick affirmations that keep us in a mode of positive attainment. Case in point: some affirmations seem to imply that […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When we were still suffering the effects of active debting, under earning and overspending, we became desperate people. Financial chaos had become familiar – even normal, with drama at every turn. We wanted to hide and have someone take it all away. A member shares: “When I was a kid, I learned to behave. I didn’t […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: In the DA pamphlet on Visions, we learn that our vision can be something uniquely ours. How do we find our “Vision”? A member shares: “When I made my first Visions meeting,I didn’t know what to make of it. It felt strange and selfish to think of what I wanted. Why had I […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Sometimes we need to claim our own future with specific goals. Then if we share our visions with trusted friends as if they have already happened, we set the bar high for ourselves. When we have truly committed ourselves, we often find that we will do everything in our power to make our goals. This is a healthy use […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Before DA, many compulsive debtors suffer from low self-esteem. We may have had a painful history. We start using affirmations in DA to stop the self-limiting messages we tell ourselves. These help improve our attitudes, energize our work, and begin to attract wealth again. A member shares: “When I cam into DA, my self-talk was all negative. […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Bargaining is the third of the “”five stages of grief*”. For compulsive debtors, this means a desperate search for ways to avoid the consequences of debt. We may feel compelled to hold extra jobs to pay our creditors. We may “splurge and purge” , going on bulimic shopping sprees, and when the rush of binge […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Having set up our spending categories, and tracked our numbers for a few weeks, the next step to simple pressure relief in DA is to put together a realistic spending plan that puts our needs first. To do this we schedule a Pressure Relief Meeting (PRM) during which we will share with our Pressure Relief Group (PRG) our categories for income, spending, […]
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