Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren’t really competent to give or ought to give at all.
A cornerstone of my role in a recovery community is my belief that my best function best is as a sounding board and not as a Director. I don't have a view into the future to determine the best course for anyone or anything, myself included. If you want to talk, I'll listen. If you want to know what I did/am doing/will do, I'll tell you. I try to leave it at that.
Ambition: A strong desire to do or achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. (There is the suggestion that frequently the hard work is going to produce something like money, power, or fame.)
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Ahhhhh, yes, how much better is that! I can be ambitious and humble at the same time. I can measure my success by how helpful and useful I am to someone else.
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step.
Joy. Good living. Understanding. Man, I was woefully lacking in these qualities when I was living a drunken life consumed by self and full of self-pity
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