SUPPORTIVE RESOURCES

Daily Principles for Grounding & Recovery

These reflections and slogans offer daily guidance for cultivating serenity, clarity, and personal strength. Use them as daily reminders to stay centered, present, and connected to your path.

Just for Today: A Daily Commitment

  • Just for today, I will try to live through this day only and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for 12 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

  • Just for today, I will be happy. As Abraham Lincoln said, "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  • Just for today, I will adjust myself to what is—not try to adjust everything to my desires. I will take life as it comes and fit myself to it.

  • Just for today, I will strengthen my mind. I will study, learn something useful, and challenge myself with reading that requires effort and thought.

  • Just for today, I will exercise my soul:

    • I will do a good deed without expecting recognition.

    • I will do at least two things I don’t want to do—just for practice.

    • I will not show that my feelings are hurt.

  • Just for today, I will be agreeable. I will look my best, speak gently, and refrain from criticism. I will focus on improving myself—not others.

  • Just for today, I will do my best and avoid the pests of hurry and indecision.

  • Just for today, I will take a quiet half hour to reflect and gain perspective.

  • Just for today, I will be unafraid—especially to enjoy beauty and to trust that what I give to the world will return to me.

Core Slogans to Live By

  • First Things First

    • Prioritize your well-being before trying to change others.

  • Just for Today

    • Stay present. Let go of the past and avoid fearing the future.

  • Keep an Open Mind

    • Be willing to listen and learn, even from differing perspectives.

  • Let Go and Let God

    • Accept what you cannot change and trust in a higher wisdom.

  • One Day at a Time

    • Focus on progress, not perfection.

  • Easy Does It

    • Allow yourself to slow down and take things gently.

  • How Important Is It?

    • Keep perspective. Focus on what truly matters.

  • Live and Let Live

    • Respect your own path and others’ freedom to walk theirs.

Resources for Support & Healing

Use this guide as a grounding tool whenever life feels overwhelming. One moment, one action, one day at a time.

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