Three frogs are sitting on a log. One decides to jump off. How many are left?

If you’re thinking there are two frogs left on the log you’re wrong. There are still three frogs. One only made the decision to jump. A decision without action is nothing.

1. Don’t drink (eat) between breaths.
2. Every recovery began with one abstinent hour.
3. Be careful what you pray for; you might get it.
4. Go to meetings when you want to, and go when you don’t want to.
5. It gets better.

1. ISM = I, myself, me
2. STOP = Sicker than other people
3. PACE = Positive attitudes change everything
4. GIFT = Getting it from the steps
5. HELP =Hope, encouragement, love, patience

1. Stuff your face or face your stuff.
2. How can you surrender of you don’t trust.
3. Happiness is loving what you have.
4. Sarcasm tears at us.
5. God (HP) chooses when you suffer and when you don’t.

1. KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid
2. KCP –Keep Coming Back
3. ASK-A** Saving Kit
4. DENIAL – Don’t Even Notice I Am Lying
5. DUES- Desperately Using Everything but Sobriety

1. Acceptance is the answer to ALL of my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation- some fact of my life- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. (A.A. Big Book p417)
2. First thing’s first.
3. It it works..don’t fix it.
4. Keep coming back. It works if you work it.
5. Stick with winners.

1. Do what you say. Say what you mean but not in a mean way.
2. Work the program, not being sprinkled with it.
3. Recovery doesn’t come from sitting in a chair. It comes from working the steps.
4. Nothing is worse than a belly full of food and a head full of OA.
5. Rubbing index and thumb along with breathing helps to meditate.
6. Compliance vs Surrender.

1. OA doesn’t teach us how to handle food. It teaches how to handle life without food.
2. I make mistakes. I am not a mistake.
3. Any time I allow selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear to be a part of me, I block out spiritual things.
4. Do the next right thing or next thing right.
5. Anger is an emotion of justice. Anger signals to me that there is injustice. What do a do with that anger?

I was chatting with my sponsor the other day and we talked about how a sponsor can save you from drowning (metaphorically speaking). Suppose you are drowning (in food). Your sponsor is trying to throw you a life line with one of those life saver rings. She (or he) keeps throwing it and throwing but you keep saying I’m ok. I’m ok. But…you’re drowning. All you have to do each reach for the ring and you’ll be pulled in to safety.

Also change sponsor to HP. All you have to do is reach and HP will meet you the rest of the way. In fact, if you’re willing to reach. I’m sure HP will help you too.

1. Trust is a process.
2. There but for the grace of God (HP)
3. Think…think…think
4. Act as if…
5. Expect miracles