{"id":1706,"date":"2025-11-16T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:30:23","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-november-16th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Daily Reading from Recovery Days November 16th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-551741cdb4b4efe03723a18ea0225230\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-f8ed101762af1b26fb2bc4018e0c7643\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-820c9a0e624d70ee4cc797d5733146af\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness &#8211; review expectations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-7e5c969a1573dafc9a4718ec325728c6\"><strong>Humility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-5e719178515edbe529e7570f6173a24c\"><strong><br>A healthy and happy husband came home one evening: Today, I\u2019m ten years sober, he announced, glowing with pride, isn\u2019t that marvellous? His wife looked up at him: So is the cat, she said. As addicted people, many of us find it difficult not to be the centre of attention. Like children, we tend to think that we are more important than anyone else, not realising that the major changes we have made are just routine, common-sense decisions to the grown-ups. Mature decision-making consists of putting our long-term needs first and refraining from activities that are clearly self-destructive. Mature people expect no congratulations for making such obviously common-sense decisions. Am I making grown-up decisions these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-efd96d32068382127ec8d9428f0ff8f6\"><strong>A large part of humility is ego-management \u2013 recognising when our inflated ego is getting us into trouble and rectifying the situation. For this reason, humility has been called the \u2018Mother of all Virtues.\u2019 Thus, when people see true humility, they know that they are seeing a person who truly knows themselves \u2013 a person who has mastered the difficult art of ego management. Today I ask that I show humility in all my affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness &#8211; review expectations Humility A healthy and happy husband came home one evening: Today, I\u2019m ten years sober, he announced, glowing with pride, isn\u2019t that marvellous? 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