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Before then, I had written
lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this
time I meant business.
2.
It may mean the loss of many nights' sleep, great interference with your pleasures, interruptions to your business.
3.
He is positive he can handle his liquor, that it does
him no harm, that drinking is necessary in
his business.
4.
Among many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.
5.
Of an evening, you can go on a
mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
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We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business.
8.
He trembled as he went
about, for this might mean ruin,
particularly to a person in his line of business.
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I'm ready to do business.
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'Give me the business.'
14.
Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told:
"How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.
15.
Who is more unpopular than
the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?
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As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
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He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business and
had retired, he would not touch another drop.
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(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s
bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.
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As he gained confidence,
he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.
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It was fortunate, for my old
business associates remained skeptical for a
year and a half, during which I found little work.
29.
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
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An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
33.
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.
34.
I have had many men who had, for
example, worked a period of months on some problem or business deal which was to be settled on
a certain date, favorably to them.
35.
If it is a happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a
business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
36.
For alcoholism had been a lonely business, even though we had been surrounded by people who loved us.
37.
We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation
which might be helped by better understanding all
around.
38.
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed
him.
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If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
41.
His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the
business he had lost through drinking.
42.
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.
43.
Here are some of the methods
we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with
and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
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We, who have collectively seen a great deal of business life, at least from the alcoholic angle, had to smile at this gentleman's sincere opinion.
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He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest of
the world would only behave;
the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and
the alcoholic who has lost
all and is locked up.
53.
If he is conscientiously following the program of recovery he can go anywhere your business may call him.
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A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred
thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
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Their treasurer, strictly accountable, takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.
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The A.A. groups, many thought, could go into business, might finance any enterprise whatever in
the total field of alcoholism.
59.
If it is a happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a
business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
60.
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously
good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
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We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
63.
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of
a spiritual experience, this business of
resentment is infinitely grave.
64.
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable
fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership.
65.
Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his
business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by
foolishly admitting
his plight to people from
whom he made his livelihood?
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If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or
both, then the following suggestions may be helpful.
68.
When by devoted service to
family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility
and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
69.
Surveying his business or
employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my
financial instability?
70.
He may either plunge into a
frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
71.
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
72.
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in
such an event.
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Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in
such an event."
74.
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the
man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.
75.
While drinking, he accepted a sum of money from a bitterly-hated business rival, giving him no receipt for it.
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But the head of the house has
spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.
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Can he talk frankly with you
so long as he does not bear
business tales or criticize his associates?
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Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.
81.
Even when we were well reestablished in our business, these terrible fears often continued to haunt us.
82.
Whereupon we tried A.A. hospitals -- they all bogged down because you cannot put an A.A. group into business; too many busybody cooks spoil the broth.
83.
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.
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