TRIP TO COSTCO ---
It's a wet, cool day in southern Ontario and my wife has gone to run an open house at a new seniors residence in Stouffville Ontario. Know anyone who love to live at Stouville Creek? My first real golf game after healing enough from an operation got "rained".Our builder in Lindsay, Gold Ribbon Homes continues to leave much work uncompleted and most of what they complete outside is done half assed on t... Read More

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Law of the Garbage Truck

How often do you let other people change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? In this day and age where everything is governed by a LAW, here's a new one!

Unless you're the Terminator, for an instant you're probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly she/he can get
back her/his focus on what's important.

Five years ago I learned this le... Read More

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A Spiritual (not religious) Lifestyle
Thought to Ponder . . .True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

As I made a decision to do something about my life as it was back in 1994, early on I had the GOD thing thrown at me.
Like most, I had attended Sunday school as a kid and at the insistence of my parents. At an age I was allowed to make decisions for myself, I found better things to do on a Sunday morning, like sleep in to recover from Saturday night!
At abo... Read More

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FEAR OF THE UNFAMILIAR
To stop behaving in a certain way is to risk the unfamiliar.
--Jan Lloyd

Oft times in this journey of recovery, you talk with someone and they open up and tell you that one of the biggest fears they have in changing there life is that they don't know what they will do with their time. As well, they feel their "friends" will desert them. (What is a friend-honestly?) and they will have to start over again!
Start what over again? Hopefully not m... Read More

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Straight Thinking

What does straight thinking mean to you?

Back in the days before recovery, what is set forth below as straight thinking was not part of my life. It was not that I didn’t want to take advice, be open and honest, be truly humble; for a hundred reasons that made sense to me at the time, I simply was not able to.

When I accepted that I was powerless over many of my actions, and that being powerless had made many parts of my life totally unmanageable, I... Read More

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