Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   August 23                                                  Decision-making

      "Before we got clean, most of our actions were guided by impulse.
            Today, we are not locked into this type of thinking."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 87

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   Life is a series of decisions, actions, and consequences.  When we were
   using, our decisions were usually driven by our disease, resulting in
   self-destructive actions and dire consequences.     We came to  see
   decision-making as a rigged game, one we should play as little as
   possible.

   Given that, many of us have great difficulty learning to make decisions in
   recovery.  Slowly, by working the Twelve Steps, we gain practice in making
   healthy decisions, ones that give positive results.   Where our disease
   once affected our will and our lives, we ask our Higher Power to care for
   us.  We inventory our values and our actions, check our findings with
   someone we trust, and ask the God of our understanding to remove our
   shortcomings.  In working the steps we gain freedom from the influence of
   our disease, and we learn principles of decision-making that can guide us
   in all our affairs.

   Today, our decisions and their consequences need not be influenced by our
   disease.   Our faith gives us the courage and direction to make good
   decisions and the strength to act on them.  The result of that kind of
   decision-making is a life worth living.

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   Just for today:   I will use the principles of the Twelve Steps to make
   healthy decisions.  I will ask my Higher Power for the strength to act on
   those decisions.