What Is Your Focus?
February 4, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
This is one of our passages that has meant quite a bit to me. Once it was pointed out to me that I was a powerful negative thinker this is one of many tools that turned my thinking around.
“I can do the same thing with an A.A. meeting. The more I focus my mind on its defects – late start, long drunkalogs, cigarette smoke – the worse the meeting becomes. But when I try to see what I can add to the meeting, rather than what I can get out of it, and when I can focus my mind on what’s good about it, rather than what’s wrong with it, the meeting keeps getting better and better. When I focus on what’s good today, I have a good day, and when I focus on what’s bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on a problem, the problem increases; if I focus on the answer, the answer increases.”
And then I have the Second Step. When I find myself questioning another human being’s sanity, I recall that it is not up to me to make that person sane, if they weren’t.
