is life managing me?

Traditional Step 1
We admitted
we were powerless
over our addiction

that our lives
had become unmanageable

Suggestion 3
Learn why
it is worth the effort
to get a manageable life

Suggestion 4
Learn from
a trustworthy addiction sponsor
how get a manageable life

After I woke up
on November 20 2015 morning
under the Lancaster Avenue bridge
in downtown Fort Worth Texas

and decided it was time
to get a manageable life

I spent 15 minutes every day
ever since that
cold November day
working hard on
getting a manageable life

I learned that’s
all it takes
to get a manageable life:

just 15 minutes
of writing my step-work
each and every day

I learned years ago
that if it ain’t in writing
it didn’t happen

Just staring off into space
or
looking up for divine intervention

doesn’t count
as step work

If you don’t have some evidence
(even just a drawing)
to show your sponsor

that you did your
step work homework

then you
haven’t done
your step work

To get a manageable life
you need to understand
how you think

To understand
how you think
you must have a sponsor
to help you understand
how you think

I meet with my sponsor
at least once a week
so he can understand
how I think

Your sponsor
will try to understand
what might be
causing your

anxiety
about tomorrow

shame and guilt
about yesterday

depression
about everything

anger
at everyone

PTSD
because of
what happened

bipolar
because of
who knows what

or other problems
that cause your life
to be unmanageable

by asking you questions
and listening to your answers
about your life

There are no
right or wrong answers
about your life

But
there is
right and wrong thinking
about your life

And
when your sponsor
encounters something wrong
with your thinking
about your life

your sponsor
will make a suggestion
that he or she hopes

will change your thinking
about your life

If you don’t
get a manageable life
you just might relapse

I love
having a manageable life
because I am in control
of everything in my life

so when shit happens
I have
plenty of time
to deal with life
when shit happens

The next time
you feel anxious or upset
about something

ask yourself
these two questions:

is life managing me?

or

am I managing life?

Once you get a manageable life
your anxiety and anger
will completely disappear

because you are finally
in control of your own life

GetAFuckingSponsor
to help you
manage your life

If you don’t
GetAFuckingSponsor
you just might relapse
and
go to jail or prison
or
get sent to a mental institution
or
die an early death

And that’s
The Truth


I SWITCHED LABELS
IN MY WIFE’S
SPICE CABINET. SHE
HASN’T NOTICED BUT
THYME IS CUMIN

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