Reading about spiritual transformation.

I am reading a book about spiritual transformation.  I have read the first chapter.  It is giving me some insights as I read this book by Institute of Noetic  Sciences. This institute was founded by Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell in 1973. I may have heard of this before but the book is new to me. I am reading it now in January and am at an airport as I wait overnight for an early morning flight.

This year my goals for the year concern writing and learning.

Writing and learning are good activities to engage recovery. My new year's goals centre around more writing and more learning of music and technical subjects. I am also succeeding so far in sticking to borrowing less money. I am not totally successful with this. I am being successful with keeping some savings and also paying back debt at a reasonably quick rate that is not an emotionally stressful rate too. Yes, things are in balance around finances right now.

The most depressing day of the year was fine for me and I picked up my work place a little.

I was doing alright mood wise today. I picked up my pace of work after not having much work directly in front of me last week. A number of things improved in my life over the weekend and I volunteered so gave back to my community.

Moving along with recovery as a more daily activity

I decided recovery should not just happen on Saturdays when the work week is over but I should try to read and study recovery literature everyday. Perhaps I am trying to do too much. That, in fact, was something I thought about this week, saying no.

I met with a workplace psychologist this week.

I have an employee assistance program at work and I use it generally to meet with a counseling psychologist. I discussed getting out of debt, traveling I do, and read some daily meditations with him.

Reading daily meditations needs to continue for me.

These daily meditation readers break me out of my bubble and get me to experience life others have and also helps me learn 12 step materials.

I made day 1 of not borrowing.

It is struggle to get the debtor's anonymous program working for me. It did though lead me back to the 12 steps in a bigger way and I quit smoking. I managed to cancel an order for a new Apple computer and made plans to do without that new Apple computer. I investigated used computers or not using that type of Apple computer at all. I have a number of other types of computers. The progress here is also that I am replacing a broken Apple computer or trying to get it working a little longer. No need yet for the new Apple computer.

I am still not smoking.

I have maintained my quit with smoking. I have not smoked in over 2 years and 3 months and have not had nicotine in 2 years and 1 month. This is a small 12 step success story I have definitely obtained.