Today's Thought - May

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May 9

I suppose I began to drink heavily after I realized that the things I wanted most in life for myself and my writing were simply not going to happen.

~Raymond Carver

We may have a picture in our minds of what, for us, would be failure. When we surrender to the idea of failure, we’re putting things we can’t control in charge of our happiness.

There’s nothing wrong with setting goals; goals contribute to our success by firing the imagination, giving us a vision of what we’re working for. But when our goals depend on people and events over which we’re powerless, we may be setting ourselves up for unnecessary and unrealistic feelings of failure.

For today, our goal can be simply to show up, do the best we can, and turn the results over to a Power greater than ourselves. We can take more pleasure in the moment-to-moment experiences of a process when we’re not focused on judging the outcome. We can congratulate ourselves for having the courage to take risks and follow through.

Today, I honor myself for working toward my goals to the best of my ability.

Today's reading is from the book Glad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People*