I have heard many times “You gotta do this.” “You gotta do that.” “You have to do this or that.” Even in AA. “You have to do this or that or you will get drunk.” When I hear that I GOTs to do something, I instinctively pull back. I probably also rebel.
I am one of the members of this organization who has had more than one iffy event. When I got out of it, I thought “Why am I even alive?” We used to call it living on borrowed time. Therefore, I could very well be dead. I am blessed to be able to do or not do something. This means that I GETs to do something. I don’t GOTs to do something. MAY do something. Not NEED to do something.
I have a choice today in everything. Thus, I stay out of many situations. Especially where I GOTs do something. I usually know that I am truly blessed. I am able to CHOOSE what to do. Or not do. It is all about semantics. But then so is much of the program.
I enter a venture with a positive attitude. Hence, I am assured that the right thing is going to happen. That my need will be taken care of. It may not be something that pleases me. However it will be the right thing for the occasion. When I think that I GOTs to do something, it is not with a positive attitude. Therefore, when I enter a venture with a negative attitude, I usually find trouble. If something can go wrong it will. Attitude is not just a large part of anything. It is ALL of everything. What I put into life is what I get out of it. Don’t forget the Law of Attraction and the mirror of life. Take the Law of Attraction. It begins as a thought process for many of us. It soon becomes instinctive. Also, more things become GETs to items. Not GOTs to items.
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