Hi again,
I know you’re gonna say you’ve heard it all before, but once again I must apologise for my lack of posts of late, but what with work and family commitments, and trying to start a new business I really have been sooo busy!
Anyway I’ve been doing loads of learning, not only for my new business but for my recovery….
My home group was involved in the running of a mini-convention a couple of weeks ago, and I was lucky enough to be of service making the tea and general helping out-we had some great speakers from both AA and Al-Anon, and a great day was had by all.
I made up a t-shirt to advertise exalky.com, but decided it was a bit cheesy (low self esteem) and kept my tracksuit top over it!
Anyway the reason I have been so reluctant about advertising exalky.com, is because of something I heard in the rooms from an old timer who I have the greatest respect for, “if it ain’t in the Big Book, it ain’t worth a shite!”.
Even though my head’s been screaming “LUDDITES!”, I really don’t want to cause any offence or harm so I keep quiet and rarely share about the law of attraction or my take on a higher power, in fact I’m not sure I’ve ever shared about this openly in a meeting..
I went to a great meeting this week and met up with some old friends I hadn’t seen for a while.The meeting usually has a speaker, but not this time. Instead, we read around the room from the Big Book, one of the stories, entitled “Acceptance was the answer”. Not having picked up the Big Book in a while , I had forgotten the story.
Can you imagine the wonderful feeling I got when I heard the words toward the end of the reading;
“I can do the same thing with an AA meeting. The more I focus my mind on its defects-late start, long drunkalogs, cigarette smoke-the worse the meeting becomes. But when I try to see what I can add to the meeting, rather than what I can get out of it, and when I focus my mind on whats good about it, rater than what’s wrong with it, the meeting keeps getting better and better. When I focus on what’s good today, I have a good day, and when I focus on what’s bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on a problem, the problem increases; if I focus on the answer, the answer increases.”
Right there in the Big Book, The Law of Attraction in a nutshell!
Maybe the t-shirt wasn’t such a bad idea after all 
Be well,
Fluke