Thought for today: If we make meetings for a while, we will eventually see people come and go. Some of them will come back years later, with more debt than ever. Others may never come back. Why is that? Reason #1: Debtors Anonymous isn’t a place to window shop for financial advice. It’s different from anything else. DA’s not going to […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: In DA we all come from different backgrounds and professions, but we focus on our common problem of debting, overspending and under earning. Our disease is no respecter of persons – and neither is our recovery! DA Tradition 1. “Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon D.A. unity.” A member shares: […]
Continue reading →A member shares: “I don’t have enough time! Every day slips by me. Meetings, work, family activities, the list goes on. When will I have time for me?” Thought for today: How often do we tell ourselves these kinds of messages? Time debting can effect our solvency and our serenity without us even knowing. Since […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Step Eleven encourage us to grow in understanding, knowledge and power. It asks us to think about spiritual ideals with an open mind. It asks us to listen for our answers and learn. DA Step 11: 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: It’s embarrassing to have to admit when we are wrong. It blows our image of ourselves. But better to suffer a little embarrassment if it helps maintain our solvency and serenity in the long run. DA Step 9: 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: When we were debting, life was full of anxiety. Now, if we want to clear the emotional wreckage of the past, we need to take a fearless moral inventory. We need to carefully consider the recurring themes in our lives that have caused emotionally disruption. When we look inside in this new way, it helps our outer […]
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: Sometimes life’s challenges feel overwhelming, and we need a shortcut way to refocus on the principles of DA. That’s where slogans come in. To our knowledge, DA hasn’t adopted any slogans officially, but DA has approved AA literature, and much of AA literature uses the AA slogans, so we can start there. A […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Material satisfaction is not the purpose of living, but many of us deceived ourselves into thinking that way. Coming from deprivation, we confused the ends with the means, and thought that wealth and power were ends in themselves. The truth is, wealth and power are only valuable inasmuch as we put them to good use. A member […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: REMINDER: No matter what the commercials may claim, buying a new car during the holidays does not equal love. It’s transportation. It’s style. It might be sleek, fun to drive, great on gas or maybe even an electric car, but it is not love and it never will be love. Yet advertisers […]
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