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	<title>The Last Chance Texaco &#187; Willingness</title>
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	<description>Tales of Recovery from Crystal Meth Addiction</description>
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		<title>The defect of perfectionism.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/living-in-recovery/defect-perfectionism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will sometimes, maybe even often, not do something because the idea that I will do it less than perfectly paralyzes me.  I&#8217;m way better now at allowing myself to make mistakes than I ever have been before.  Really, you don&#8217;t make the kind of catastrophic mistakes that we serious tweekers make, and not come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some must die that others may live.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Some must die so that others may live” – a phrase meaning it is good that some people drink themselves to death, as this helps scare the shit out of those considering leaving AA. I&#8217;ve never had so many people in my life die as I have had since I came to AA, not counting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when suddenly, and without any warning,</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/willingness-principles/when-suddenly-and-without-any-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[it started to snow. Snow! I&#8217;m not freaking kidding. And not just a little snow, either. The forecast was for a little rain.Â  A 40% chance of rain. And we got snow. It was the earliest snowfall ever recorded here, beating the previous record by two days and 1/2 an inch, and while it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To love myself more perfectly.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/service-principles/to-love-myself-more-perfectly/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/service-principles/to-love-myself-more-perfectly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s funny, the ideas that people get about the relationship between loving others and loving themselves. The conventional wisdom is that learning to love oneself is essential to loving others. Yet 12 step programs insist that we must place others ahead of ourselves in order to recover. I was at a meeting the other night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So smart in many ways,</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/willingness-principles/smart-in-many-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[and yet so stupid in others.Â  I sometimes wonder if it isn&#8217;t actually a function of intelligence to be able to block out information when we choose to; if you don&#8217;t actually have to be really smart to have a really effective denial mechanism. A certain amount of mental power must be involved in forcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Very Next Thought</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/willingness-principles/the-very-next-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ephemera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of things that I think automatically, answers I give without consideration, judgements I enter without a fair trial. Moving beyond my knee-jerk psychic construct, at least with regard to drugs and alcohol, and with regard to many of my ideas about myself, has been an absolute necessity in getting and staying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheer for the Willing</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/cheer-for-the-willing/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/faith-principles/cheer-for-the-willing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I witnessed one of the greatest acts of faith and willingness I&#8217;ve ever seen in someone new to recovery. I don&#8217;t even know what word describes how I feel. Fulfilled. Grateful. Sruprised, Happy. Blessed. I don&#8217;t know. Full. I feel full. I&#8217;ve been spending more time with the Cheerleader lately and I&#8217;ve been doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simply a matter of work.</title>
		<link>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/perseverance-principles/simply-a-matter-of-work/</link>
		<comments>http://thelastchancetexaco.com/principles/perseverance-principles/simply-a-matter-of-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willingness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I learned about this tool from my Irish friend because she put up a link to an online version of it on her blog. I like tools like this, though I don&#8217;t often pick them up. Like much of what is available to me to grow spiritually. I seem to have been so desensitized to [...]]]></description>
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