Steps on our Road to Recovery

Daily Steps On Our Road to Recovery for 14 to 18 February 2000.

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14 February 2000

What are some continuing trends?

Sponsor supported software. Eudora Pro now has an ad supported

version in of their premier mail program in Beta. This is just one example

of this trend. Shareware has problems, not enough people share. In

addition there are other free programs, like Outlook Express, and most

shareware programs ask for too much money. The neat thing about ad

supported software is that there is continuous income for the programmers

that allows for continuous improvement.

Even freeware is selling us something. Sometimes the ego of the

programmer. Sometimes the expertise of the programmer or the company.

There is even the possibility that any program authors will be able to

choose who will advertise through them in the future. Eudora explains

very well about their change to be following the ad supported TV model.

The other trend is to having the computing being done in servers and

the programs on the Internet, instead of our local hard drives. These so

called ASP services will also be ad supported, sponsored.

What does all this have to do with recovery? It has to do with sponsorship.

We need continuous sponsoring. We need to find where we get continuous

positive support, positive sponsoring. We need to do positive sponsoring,

supporting in return and even first. In fact, when we have the attitude of a

sponsor that has had their spiritual awakening, all of what we do is sponsoring.

Speaking of sponsorship, we can both win when you sponsor me by using

some of the sponsors that are paying for the attention of both of us.

15 February 2000

Who is responsible?

We all are. We all are responsible for what we think of our stories with

our circumstances and our unknowns. Since everyone is responsible, then

all we can do is take responsibility for our own story. We can make up a

new story as we go along.

Once upon a time, one of us realized that they were totally responsible.

They called themselves a son of God and of man and called us Gods. They

realized that they were in the least of us. They realized that they had little,

to no control of all of us, and yet they took responsibility for our mistakes.

They did that, so that none of us would need to take responsibility for any

of the mistakes of others. They did that so that we could turn over our

mistakes to God, so that God could transform our mistakes into our blessings.

Who was that masked man?

16 February 2000

How can I find Happiness?

By choosing to be happy, in spite of what is going on. Happiness is a

choice. This becomes more clear, when we or someone we know, chooses

unhappiness. When we choose unhappiness, we upset ourselves. We worry

and we worry others. We get physical symptoms, from our upsets and worries.

We then worry and upset ourselves, over our physical symptoms, that we caused

in the first place. We are on a negative spiral.

The way back to happiness is to repent, to change our minds. We need to

decide to be happy. Then our physical symptoms improve. Then we worry

less and upset ourselves less. Then our physical symptoms improve. Then we

are happier. Then our physical symptoms improve. Then we are on a positive

spiral. How happy do you want to be today? I want to be happy enough.

17 February 2000

What is a Window of Opportunity?

A Window of Opportunity is an optimum time. Sometimes it is good to

procrastinate, because the best deal is not yet here. Sometimes it is bad to

procrastinate, because the best deal is going away. Sometimes it is good

enough, no matter what. That is, when time, is not a factor.

There was an optimum time to apply to http://www.free-pc.com, for a

free PC. They sent me one, with a program to show me ads for 30 months

and then it would be mine. In five months e-machines bought free-pc out

and decided to use the free-pc programmers and personnel for higher

priorities. They were using them for data mining to see how ads worked

best on PC's and how we use PC's. Perhaps they got enough data. So,

they gave me title to my Compaq 5301. I was on time for my Window of

Opportunity. I list opportunities I find on my page

https://www.recoverybydiscovery.com/getpaid.htm.

Not only is there a growing set of services on the Internet, supported

by ads, they are even paying us to look at some ads. There is even a rash

of programs to get paid directly to try new services. This too will pass.

A current example is x.com

where they are giving us $20 in our account with them and $10 for up to

100 people we refer. The window of opportunity closes this Friday on

18 February. I was looking for this particular window, where you can

get paid easily, without paying a large fee to credit cards or other

companies. Little did I expect for them to pay me a bonus and a bonus

for those I refer and get their services for free.

I kept looking for what I wanted until I got it. A banking service to make

moving money easy. Life is also like that in other areas. When we are looking

for something, we need to keep looking until we find it. I heard this joke in

Marine boot camp. It was about the Private recruit that kept picking up papers

every where, no matter what. He kept getting into trouble, but he picked each

paper up, no matter what. You would have to be crazy to do that in Marine

boot camp, so they sent him to their head doctor. He kept picking up papers

in the doctor's office. The doctor certified him as crazy and they gave him a

medical discharge. When he picked up his medical discharge he said: That's

the paper I was looking for!"

18 February 2000

What do we do when we find we make mistakes?

Do it over. Make amends. Find out if it really was a mistake.

Sometimes it is not a mistake. Sometimes we are just the servant

of another that needs our mistake. Since everyone is doing the

best that they can with their circumstances and what they are

conscious of and what they are not conscious of, are there really

any mistakes?

As we change our circumstances and as we become more

conscious we can do things better and make better amends.

19 February 2000

What is our real God like?

Not like our EGO. Not like our FEARS. God is like our

best and closest FRIEND. EGO is Edging God Out. FEARS

is False Expectations Appearing Real Shitty. FRIEND is more

than these letters. FRIEND is all the letters of our alphabet from

A to Z. A friend of mine sent me this URL

www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/3227/ABC.html. I will leave

it to you to see how your friends are like that and God is like that

for you.

Very Respectfully,

Michael Foster, MA

Your Recovery by Discovery Coach

https://www.recoverybydiscovery.com

Mikeemail

"Learn HOW to recovery by discovering the blocks you need to remove and the actions you need to take and what you need to let go of as your blocks to your blessings."

From my book in process, Recovery By Discovery, The Spiritual Cookbook (Generic Recipes for a Better Life)

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