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bluidkiti · 12-17-2020, 03:52 AM

December 17

Success

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.

~American saying

All too often, we hear someone’s success explained as “a stroke of good luck.” Success and progress are no more the result of good luck than failure is the result of bad luck. Natural ability is of little use unless we develop habits of hard work. Brilliance is born in some, but labor or action is of greater importance.

We perform to the best of our ability when we work for the work’s sake, not for any hope of fame. Success results from hard work and confidence in our judgment. The degree of success depends on the amount of good judgment used. Good advice and judgment from others is helpful, but the doing is entirely ours.

Success is simply the use of the abilities I have. I must treat them as practical tools, not magical gifts. Nobody travels my road for me.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It, A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations

12-17-2020, 03:52 AM	#17
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 75,930	December 17 Success Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. ~American saying All too often, we hear someone’s success explained as “a stroke of good luck.” Success and progress are no more the result of good luck than failure is the result of bad luck. Natural ability is of little use unless we develop habits of hard work. Brilliance is born in some, but labor or action is of greater importance. We perform to the best of our ability when we work for the work’s sake, not for any hope of fame. Success results from hard work and confidence in our judgment. The degree of success depends on the amount of good judgment used. Good advice and judgment from others is helpful, but the doing is entirely ours. Success is simply the use of the abilities I have. I must treat them as practical tools, not magical gifts. Nobody travels my road for me. Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It, A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.