Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   December 10                                                        Winners

   "I started to imitate some of the things the winners were doing.  I got
                      caught up in NA.  I felt good..."

                                                           Basic Text, p. 153

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   We often hear it said in meetings that we should "stick with the
   winners." Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous?   Winners are
   easily identified.  They work an active program of recovery, living in the
   solution and staying out of the problem.   Winners are always ready to
   reach their hands out to the newcomer.   They have sponsors and work with
   those sponsors.  Winners stay clean, just for today.

   Winners are recovering addicts who keep a positive frame of mind.   They
   may be going through troubled times, but they still attend meetings and
   share openly about it.  Winners know in their hearts that, with the help
   of a Higher Power, nothing will come along that is too much to handle.

   Winners strive for unity in their service efforts.   Winners practice
   putting "principles before personalities."   Winners remember the
   principle of anonymity, doing the principled action no matter who is
   involved.

   Winners keep a sense of humor.   Winners have the ability to laugh at
   themselves.  And when winners laugh, they laugh with you, not at you.

   Who are the winners in Narcotics Anonymous?   Any one of us can be
   considered a winner.  All of us exhibit some of the traits of the winner;
   sometimes we come very close to the ideal, sometimes we don't.  If we
   are clean today and working our program to the best of our ability, we are
   winners!

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   Just for today:  I will strive to fulfill my ideals.  I will be a winner.