Thought for today: A fearless personal inventory takes courage. During it we often discover that the motive for our actions is fear of losing something: We fear not getting enough money, sex, love, admiration of friends, society’s praises, achievement, and so on. Fear leads to character defects of pride, anger, lust, envy, laziness, greed and gluttony. We are […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: Let’s continue our study of how the Steps and Tools of Debtors Anonymous can work together to improve a debtor’s life. It is said that if a truly compulsive debtor doesn’t take a personal inventory of their character defects, they will eventually debt again. And for debtors, this is a disastrous proposition. […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: The main problem with compulsive debtors is our minds. Our fear makes us irrationally overspend, under earn, and sabotage our own efforts to get out of debt. Then we get angry at ourselves over how much of a mess we’ve made things. The only way out seems to be more debting and the oblivion it offers. It’s […]
Continue reading →Thought for Today: Resentment – the re-feeling of old wounds – was our #1 problem. Full of pride and self-justification we would lash out at an unjust world in anger, sometimes passive-aggressively, other times with outright aggression. Taking a fourth step inventory was essential for recovery from compulsive debting, overspending, and under-earning. Before Step Four, […]
Continue reading →Thought for today: A member shares on Step 4: “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” “When I was ready to take Step Four I made the list just like in the Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, chapter 5), using five columns: ‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘Affects My’, ‘Exact Nature of My Wrongs’, and […]
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