One Day at a Time in Al-Anon:
Step One of the Twelve Steps, “admitted we were powerless,” is often thought to be the most difficult of all. For some of us, though, the Second Step is just as hard, because it suggests we admit that our own behavior hasn’t always been entirely sane. Here’s an example:
A fairly usual habit that is irrational and self-defeating is to make big troubles out of little ones. We don’t do this because we haven’t enough of the big ones — oh no! It’s because we’re so weighed down by it all that everything looks black, and we fail to distinguish between what’s crucial and important, and what things we could afford to ignore and forget.
Today’s Reminder:
Every time something happens to frustrate or annoy me, I’ll stand off and ask myself: “Is this a mountain or a molehill?” I just won’t waste time and nervous energy on unimportant things; I’ll save them so I can cope with the big ones!
“Some folks worry and putter,
Push and shove,
Hunting little molehills
To make big mountains of.”