Thought for today: Underearning is a frustrating situation. Unemployment is a dramatic form, and it is exasperating. Underemployment is ego-deflating. Not earning enough to make ends meet feels demoralizing. Some underearners even self-sabotage without realizing it. Underearners have two main fronts before them in their campaign to improve income. First, their perspective usually needs to expand. For example, they need to […]
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Continue reading →Thought for today: Underearning is often a symptom of compulsive debting. Compulsive underearners find themselves never making ends meet and they can’t figure out why. They suffer depression, deprivation, envy and low self-esteem. Underearners need a way to increase income, but one never seems to develop. Even with the prospect of a new career, they […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: At times we all feel envious. Most people get beyond the feeling and move on with their lives. There are some challenges for the compulsive debtor to do that. It’s especially hard for under earners to get beyond envy. Whenever they meet someone with a happy life, more material possessions, compliant and bright kids, and so on, the temptation is to […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Performing an occasional inventory is important for any business. Businesses take stock of items on hand. Owners decide what is salable, what to mark down, and what to give away or discard. Inventories are systematic. They are not haphazard. They are thorough and fearless. A good inventory is more intellect than emotion. Business of all sizes perform […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: The first three steps lead us to trust. Powerless over unsecured debt, we need to trust that DA can guide us to sane living. Steps 4-9 are like housecleaning, because with them we take a close look at our lives, keeping what makes sense, and discarding what doesn’t bring joy and fulfillment. We continue to clean house with Step 10, […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Moving through the Twelve Steps, we find that self-centeredness often run and ruin lives. But we can escape the cycles of selfishness. Humility is a gift that comes from the awareness of our selfish motives, and it can guide us. A member shares: “I was humiliated by my debt. Family ridiculed me. I dared not […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: If everyone sincerely tried to live according to the 12 Steps of recovery, the world would be a better place. The 12 Traditions could bring harmony. The 12 Concepts of World Service could inspire a harmonious planed. The world would be a very different place if we lived according to the principles of recovery, unity and service. […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Twelve Step groups are totally self-supporting. No outside donations accepted. What other organization does this? (That’s a rhetorical question, of course, because there is none.) This policy flies in the face of the recovering debtor’s subconscious hope that ‘someone will take care of us before we get into real trouble’. A member shares: “D.A. declines […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: While the program of recovery from compulsive debting tells us to take life one day at a time, it is also good to periodically plan for the longer term. It’s simpler to know how to spend our days if we know what we want to achieve. Creating goals is important. A member shares: “Now that I have taken a mid-year […]
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