Recovery Creed – Just For To-Day

JUST FOR TO-DAY Russ Tyson, well-known Australian radio and TV personality, in his 1973 book “The Best of Russ Tyson” (Melbourne : Lansdowne) with the subtitle of “Alcoholics Creed” sets out the nine paragraphs of JUST FOR TO-DAY, Many non-alcoholics who have read this feel that there is a good philosophy there for everyone alcoholic or not. Long before I seriously tried to understand and practice AA’s Twelve Steps, these nine paragraphs helped me tidy up my thinking, quieted my behaviour and lifted my attitude by following one paragraph each day In each paragraph there is the positive “I will do something” and in front of them are the words “I will try”. Early in the piece an older member told me that as long as I only tried to do something positive, that while I was trying’ it was unlikely that I would want to drink. How right he was. Looking back, not even so far back, I know that the days when things don’t go right when I am depressed tired or bored, cranky and dissatisfied, are the days when I am not trying to do something positive about the program or “Just for to-day.” By the time I was able to understand a little of the AA philosophy I realised that the positive actions suggested by “Just for to-day” were the exact opposite of my alcoholic behavior when drinking. JUST FOR TO-DAY 1. I will try to live through this day only, …. Before AA I never ever thought of the present, my mind was either occupied with wondering what I...
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