I must say I am a book-aholic. I've been collecting - and reading - books that deal with Recovery. Have you ever read a book when You think you were the subject of the book?

One book I am reading is titled Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow - 12 Simple Principles, by Karen Casey.

Her Chapter 1 - Tend Your Own Garden - provides insight to the principle of controlling the only thing we can conrol: our own responses to life. She says "The irony is that we always see in others the very behavior that we need to pay some attention to in ourselves."

Wow! How many times I have been wanting to change others behaviors, thoughts, dream, problems, successes or failure! And yes - these are the people that have those behaviors, thoughts, dreams, problems that I need to change in myself.

Casey lists the following behavior changes:

*Attend to Your Life, No One Else's!

*Let Go and Let Others Be Themselves. (Let Go and Let God!)

*Get Out of the Center of Other People's Lives. (This worked for me when I let my son live his life and I was not controlling his every move!)

*Take No Hostages. (How many times have we heard don't let other's own our emtional energy; or don't let other's rent space in your mind!!!)

Accept the things I cannot control. Hmmm... what a concept.

More later.