Favorite/Least Favorite Slogan

[If Not For Grace]

What is your favorite or Least Favoirite Slogan?

I like "Take what you like & Leave the rest"

I have a hard time with "easy does it" (But I'm working on it)

 

[madison1101]

I like "Live and Let Live."

I dislike "Think, Think, Think" But I am working on that.

Trish

 

[If Not For Grace]

Oh Mee Too! I have often said there should be a colon after Live:

(Cause if we got busy living like doing the things it says it Just for Today) We would not have time nor inclination to worry about having to "let Live")

Yeah-Think can be tough especially when by our own admission our thinking has become "distorted", but here's another one I like

PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION!!!

(Good Ones Madison!)

 

[Dralan]

I knew a guy who would always say at meetings: "dont quit 5 minutes before the miracle happens". I know thats not a real AA slogan but I always kinda liked it.

Some of those old slogans kinda lose their impact after you hear them ten billion times lol.

 

[If Not For Grace]

dont quit 5 minutes before the miracle happens".

Hey I think that's great (reminds me of the old adgae of "it's darkest just before the dawn")

 

[If Not For Grace]

Have you heard "fake it til you make it"? WDYT

 

[chilehed]

Have you heard "fake it til you make it"? WDYT

It's a great one as long as you understand it correctly. What it means is do what you'd be doing if your recovery was strong, and you'll find that your recovery will become stronger. If I go to meetings regularly, pray often, rely on the wise counsel of my sponsor and others in the program who have strong recovery, stay out of intimate relationships when I'm not ready for them, and incorporate the step in my life, then I'm probably doing OK even if I don't feel like I am.

What it does NOT mean is put on a false front, and do things like tell people everything's going great when I actually feel like I'm dying inside. I had a friend who was dressing well and talking in meetings about how great life was, utterly avoiding speaking about any of his internal struggles, and one night he went home from a meeting and hung himself from a doorknob.

So remember: it's both "fake it till you make it" AND "get honest or die."

 

[If Not For Grace]

I call "fake it til you make it" the secular version of faith. "call things that be not as though they were" (goes along that line for me), but they all come down to my
best favorite of "Take what you like & leave the rest".

 

[If Not For Grace]

WYT on "THINK"? (That was also one I had let slide-sometimes I "think" I have common sense and just fail to apply it

 

[If Not For Grace]

Got another one from a fellow poster on another thread (Step 2)

"I can't, He can, I think I'll let Him"

this is often an express version of the 1st 3 steps..

Does no one other than me use slogans? (I can't get by w/o em)

He has great thoughts on Recovery from Drugs & Hepatitis C

 

[Red A.]

My least favorite? The latest treatment center nonsense; triggers. Ya want to know that my trigger was? Oxygen. If there was oxygen present I needed a drink. When the obsession had control over my brain everything around me made me think about getting another drink.

My favorite is one day at a time.

One day at a time is a tenant of the AA program that goes through something of a metamorphosis as you work the program. In the early days of sobriety one day at a time is something of a party trick to get through a few white knuckle days. However, the AA program is about more than just struggling from moment to moment, this is about quitting for good and all.

Today is one thing that this disease took from me. While drinking, my life was a bitter hostile place to be. The drinking was killing me but the noise in my head was killing me faster. Party tricks would work only for just so long, This had to change for me to stay sober and sane for any significant amount of time.

Once you reach the fourth step 'one day at a time' really blossoms into an anchor point of sobriety. If you look at the first major categories of the 4th step, they are resentment and fear. These things rob me of any peace in my life today as resentment is all about yesterday and fear is almost always about tomorrow. This is a large part of what makes right here right now a horrible place to live.

When I am not at peace with today I can look for these two defects and go to god for help to remove the culprit. When I shake off the chains of yesterday and slip free of the yoke of tomorrow I can finally live my life one day at a time, I can live in today, and when it comes down to it that's what the AA program gives me, today, and in the end, today is all we really have.

 

[If Not For Grace]

Ya want to know that my trigger was? Oxygen.

but in all seriousness

People don't know how true that is! (cause any excuse will do)

 

[HUBIE]

My Sponsor tells me to NOT to Think. He makes a valid point; My best thinking got me drunk.....

I'm not fond of Easy Does It either.

My favorite poster I see at meetings is The Promises.

Let Go and Let God is my favorite slogan.

 

[HUBIE]

I like the paragraphs on pg. 417 (depends on which edition of the Big Book you have); that deals with "ACCEPTANCE". Gets me out of my own head and keeps me from taking too many inventories. Reminds me of Jesus's words on judging others too.

 

[If Not For Grace]

My Sponsor tells me to NOT to Think. He makes a valid point; My best thinking got me drunk.....

I'll bet your best thinking got you to the program (or at least to thinking hey this could work for me like it has for others)--most of us give little or NO thought at all to the substances we abuse(d).

 

[If Not For Grace]

This week I need to put

First Things First--I've been lazy & not taking care of things I should, can you guys count as one person?

 

[madison1101]

I like the paragraphs on pg. 417 (depends on which edition of the Big Book you have); that deals with "ACCEPTANCE". Gets me out of my own head and keeps me from taking too many inventories. Reminds me of Jesus's words on judging others too.

I love the acceptance passage in that story. It has helped me more than once to take a look at something that bothered me, and try to see it from a different perspective.

Trish R.

 

[Chaplain David]

This isn't an official slogan either but it's said some in AA & Al Anon:

"This too shall pass."

 

[If Not For Grace]

^As far as I know it's as 12-step as "yougottawanna" and is spot on with the ODAT (one day at a time) philosophy. Good one!

 

[If Not For Grace]

A member at a meeting today came up with what she called a new one:

"Watch Where You step" kinda goes w/THINK

I thought it was cute and worth a mention.. Sometimes we don't even have to think
too deeply to stay out of trouble IF we just Watch where we're going, and be aware
of our surroundings-kinda like HALT....

Your thoughts Welcome