A blog by Dr. Harry Henshaw
Posts tagged integrity
Ten Principles for Transformation in Recovery.
Aug 20th
Daily Homework – Two Principles for your Transformation in Recovery
Jul 25th
Below are two more Principles of the Daily Homework for transforming your life, especially for those in recovery.
1. Develop your Recovery plan. Plan your work with your sponsor and therapist. Your Recovery Plan is about your life. Your Recovery Plan is about your integrity. Integrity is the bottom line. Are you in integrity with your Recovery Plan? Are you in integrity with your life? Without a Recovery Plan much of life may not be lived the way that you want.
2. Develop your Daily Action Plan. Work your plan and be held accountable to your sponsor and therapist. Do your Daily Action Plan everyday. Your Daily Action Plan is about your commitment and integrity with respect to your Recovery Plan. Your Daily Action Plan is about fulfilling on your intention and commitments. Your Daily Action Plan is about keeping your Recovery Plan in existence.
Our true intention shows up in our actions.
Jul 6th
Our true intention will show up in our actions. What we do and how we behave will reveal our real intention, regardless of what we say or express verbally. It is important in any change process, including the recovery program, to plan or say your intention. Plan and express your intention each morning upon awakening and stay present to it throughout the day. What are you committed to today? What are you committed to now? What is it that you want to create in your life? What is it that you want to create now?
To fulfill on our intention will require a plan, both a recovery plan and a daily action plan, tools to bring about ones intention. First is the recovery plan, a general direction in which you will go, the goals that you will attempt to accomplish. Remember to develop your recovery plan. Plan your work. Your recovery plan is about your life and your integrity. Once created, are you in integrity with your recovery plan? Are you in integrity with your life?
Next is your daily action plan, how you will bring your recovery plan into reality and your day to day life. Remember to create your daily action plan daily. Always work this plan daily. Your daily action plan is about your commitment and integrity with respect to your recovery plan. Your daily action plan is about fulfilling on your intention and commitments. Your daily action plan is about keeping your recovery plan in existence.
It is in our word and action that our responsibility is expressed.
May 22nd
We are responsible for our life. It is in our word and action that our responsibility is expressed. What we say, our word, is important, it has an impact. But unless our behavior or action matches up with our word, there is no being authentic or integrity in our life. Being responsible is carrying out our word, doing what we say we would do. We have to be very present to what we say we will do or promise, present that when we say something that we will do for someone that we will actually do it, not just say so and not fulfill on our promise. How we show up in life to others will be determined by how responsible we appear to them, how much we honor our word. We are our word, and actions, to others in life.