I posted this as a means of self esteem building. Each day the list can be added to so to identify the good side of our characters. I will start it off.
I am intelligent
I am funny
I am a good friend
I am educated
I am sensitive
I am Kind
Fi
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I am smart
I am good looking
I am funny
I am a good athelete
I am good with children
I am a good communicator
I am a good listener
I am a Christian
I am a good learner
I have many people who care about me
I am good looking
I am funny
I am a good athelete
I am good with children
I am a good communicator
I am a good listener
I am a Christian
I am a good learner
I have many people who care about me
I'm compassionate, I'm giving, I'm funny, I'm a good cook.
I am sincere
I am a good mum
I am a good wife
I am friendly
I am compassionate
Fi
xxx
I am a good mum
I am a good wife
I am friendly
I am compassionate
Fi
xxx
I am sober
I am in recovery
I am a good Mom
I am of service to others
I am a hard worker
I am in recovery
I am a good Mom
I am of service to others
I am a hard worker
I am sober too!
I am working on recovery
My left hand is not broken
I am a great cook
I am a loyal loving man
LL
I am working on recovery
My left hand is not broken
I am a great cook
I am a loyal loving man
LL
I am clean and sober
I am in recovery
I am a hardworker
I make people laugh
I love to laugh
I'm smart
I'm educated
~Rachel
I am in recovery
I am a hardworker
I make people laugh
I love to laugh
I'm smart
I'm educated
~Rachel
I am clean & sober
I am in recovery and working the program daily
I am of service to others
I am a good mom & wife
I am a good friend
I am fairly intelligent
I am compassionate
I am grateful
xoxo
Stacey
I am in recovery and working the program daily
I am of service to others
I am a good mom & wife
I am a good friend
I am fairly intelligent
I am compassionate
I am grateful
xoxo
Stacey
What a great thread, I think all of us need to remind ourselves of the good things we are, wherever we are in recovery!!
Iam a good listener
Iam a great friend
Iam loyal
Iam of service to others
Iam kind
Iam compassionate
Iam funny and love to laugh
Iam great with animals
Iam intelligent
Iam attractive
Iam lovable
This was actually kinda hard!!!
Iam a good listener
Iam a great friend
Iam loyal
Iam of service to others
Iam kind
Iam compassionate
Iam funny and love to laugh
Iam great with animals
Iam intelligent
Iam attractive
Iam lovable
This was actually kinda hard!!!
This is really hard, yet I know I need to say something positve about myself.
Ok, I'm still thinking. I have a green thumb.
Yep it has been a hard thing for me too, particularly when for the most part of my life my thoughts have been so preoccupied with the negative in me.
I think for me it needs to be done daily to bring a balance to my thoughts and feelings. todays assets are:-
I am open to learning
I am loyal
I am strong
I am emotionally available to myself and others around me
I am a listener
I am considerate ( sometimes )
thats me for today
Fi
xxx
I think for me it needs to be done daily to bring a balance to my thoughts and feelings. todays assets are:-
I am open to learning
I am loyal
I am strong
I am emotionally available to myself and others around me
I am a listener
I am considerate ( sometimes )
thats me for today
Fi
xxx
I'm willing to learn something knew, even something old. Maybe I must repeat myself again. I sure hope not. GEES WHAT WRONG WITH ME?
I am willing
I am a grateful alcoholic & addict
I am dependable
I am conscientious
I am a positive person (well, I think so at least)
I am a grateful alcoholic & addict
I am dependable
I am conscientious
I am a positive person (well, I think so at least)
Hi all!
This is a cool thread. My sponsor had me do a simular thing when I first got clean and sober, I never thought about actually posting the idea for others. Because self asteem is such an issue for most, if not all of us he told me I should take a minute everyday to stop and even though it sounds silly, look at myself in a mirror and tell myself some posative things about me. Kinda like a pat on the back for me. Even though I'm striving for a better life he knows that while doing that we tend to be our own worst enemy and critic and usually dwell on our failures or bad points etc.. Anyway....
I'm Clean/Sober
I'm a nice guy
I'm a good husband,dad, and son
I'm a good friend
I'm responsible
I'm honest....
I like me today and try to think before I act or say anything today. I'm not a people pleaser today but I do keep the feelings of others in mind before I voice an opinion or answer asked of me today.
Anyway.....
It's nice to see you all ( so to speak ). My oldest daughter's 16th birthday is this Sunday and Gi and I are taking the whole family out to dinner at a seafood restaurant. I'm really looking forward to it. Thats something I've never done before. Invite, and take everyone to dinner like that on us. It'll be really nice having everyone together like that. Then after supper we'll all come back to our place for cake and ice cream. Today I picked Lauren and a friend of hers up from school and took them to the mall where they met some other friends and hung out. Then I picked them up and saw that they all got home. Those are the kind of things that mean alot to me today. Just being able to be there and do what dad's are supposed to do. While they were at the mall Gi and I stopped by my mom and dad's to see if they were ok or needed anything. Tomorrow Gi is taking my mom out shopping and I'm gonna hang out with Alanna till they get done. It's funny how just doing things that are normal for everyone else seem like such a big deal. Life really is great and it's truely a gift being given the second chance to right my wrongs and actually show up for life today.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Take care,
Bob
This is a cool thread. My sponsor had me do a simular thing when I first got clean and sober, I never thought about actually posting the idea for others. Because self asteem is such an issue for most, if not all of us he told me I should take a minute everyday to stop and even though it sounds silly, look at myself in a mirror and tell myself some posative things about me. Kinda like a pat on the back for me. Even though I'm striving for a better life he knows that while doing that we tend to be our own worst enemy and critic and usually dwell on our failures or bad points etc.. Anyway....
I'm Clean/Sober
I'm a nice guy
I'm a good husband,dad, and son
I'm a good friend
I'm responsible
I'm honest....
I like me today and try to think before I act or say anything today. I'm not a people pleaser today but I do keep the feelings of others in mind before I voice an opinion or answer asked of me today.
Anyway.....
It's nice to see you all ( so to speak ). My oldest daughter's 16th birthday is this Sunday and Gi and I are taking the whole family out to dinner at a seafood restaurant. I'm really looking forward to it. Thats something I've never done before. Invite, and take everyone to dinner like that on us. It'll be really nice having everyone together like that. Then after supper we'll all come back to our place for cake and ice cream. Today I picked Lauren and a friend of hers up from school and took them to the mall where they met some other friends and hung out. Then I picked them up and saw that they all got home. Those are the kind of things that mean alot to me today. Just being able to be there and do what dad's are supposed to do. While they were at the mall Gi and I stopped by my mom and dad's to see if they were ok or needed anything. Tomorrow Gi is taking my mom out shopping and I'm gonna hang out with Alanna till they get done. It's funny how just doing things that are normal for everyone else seem like such a big deal. Life really is great and it's truely a gift being given the second chance to right my wrongs and actually show up for life today.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Take care,
Bob
Gidday Everyone
I am proud to be a Kiwi
I am a Dad ,Husband, Son, Brother and Friend
I am Emotional
I am Trying and learning everyday
I am prepared to change
I am all of these when.........
I am sober
Light and love Zac
I am proud to be a Kiwi
I am a Dad ,Husband, Son, Brother and Friend
I am Emotional
I am Trying and learning everyday
I am prepared to change
I am all of these when.........
I am sober
Light and love Zac
I'm remorsful, when I do something bad.
Chris
That is not trivial to have remorse, shows you have a moral compass and probably are not a sociopath, so hey, that is positive.
I have sponsor who posits that people want to be "at the top of the heap" or if, failing that, will gravitate for the "bottom of the heap". It is so hard to think that one is in the "middle of the heap". Just a worker among workers, a friend among friends, in the herd..so to speak. Some might be afraid that they will lose their "uniqueness" whatever that means, I consider it a real, unhealthy bondage (attachment) to self that the 3rd Step Prayer asks to be released from.
So, finding it so easy to find the negative things, but hard the positive things, sounds like "bottom of the heap" thinking, and it is not exclusive to addicts, though it increases their chances or using/relapse when they engage in it. And I know, from personal experience, the damage I have done to myself and others when in that "bottom mode". Serious depression does not help the cause on this....
But...keeping with the topic.....yeah sure I have some shortcomings, but, being an improving "middle of the heap person", here come the postive traits as well
I am good with languages.
I love to read
I love giving hugs
I love to learn about other peoples' lives. Their hopes, dreams, histories (good and bad)
I am a precise experimenter who doesn't often make mistakes (though I am slow!)
I am very loyal to my spouse and to the few friends I have (though I am making more in AA)
Oh and yup, I am clean and sober..for another 24 hours.
There.
That is not trivial to have remorse, shows you have a moral compass and probably are not a sociopath, so hey, that is positive.
I have sponsor who posits that people want to be "at the top of the heap" or if, failing that, will gravitate for the "bottom of the heap". It is so hard to think that one is in the "middle of the heap". Just a worker among workers, a friend among friends, in the herd..so to speak. Some might be afraid that they will lose their "uniqueness" whatever that means, I consider it a real, unhealthy bondage (attachment) to self that the 3rd Step Prayer asks to be released from.
So, finding it so easy to find the negative things, but hard the positive things, sounds like "bottom of the heap" thinking, and it is not exclusive to addicts, though it increases their chances or using/relapse when they engage in it. And I know, from personal experience, the damage I have done to myself and others when in that "bottom mode". Serious depression does not help the cause on this....
But...keeping with the topic.....yeah sure I have some shortcomings, but, being an improving "middle of the heap person", here come the postive traits as well
I am good with languages.
I love to read
I love giving hugs
I love to learn about other peoples' lives. Their hopes, dreams, histories (good and bad)
I am a precise experimenter who doesn't often make mistakes (though I am slow!)
I am very loyal to my spouse and to the few friends I have (though I am making more in AA)
Oh and yup, I am clean and sober..for another 24 hours.
There.
I am reliable and dependable
I am trustworthy
I can give and recieve love
I can be forgiving
I try to be the light where there is darkness
I try to be the hope where there is despair.
thats me for today
Fi
xxx
I am trustworthy
I can give and recieve love
I can be forgiving
I try to be the light where there is darkness
I try to be the hope where there is despair.
thats me for today
Fi
xxx
Today:
I am a role model of appropriate behavior
I am self supporting through my own contributions
I pay my bills on time
I am a pretty good girlfriend to my boyfriend (lol!)
I am taking care of myself
I am a role model of appropriate behavior
I am self supporting through my own contributions
I pay my bills on time
I am a pretty good girlfriend to my boyfriend (lol!)
I am taking care of myself
I am accepting of mine & others shortcomings, I'm sincere.
