Tolerant/Intolerant

[caressa]

One of the lessons I learned early in recovery was to be careful about asking my Higher Power for Patience and Tolerance, because things seem to happen in practice on.

I am much more tolerant in recovery today because I can see things from both sides of the street and often can see and accept where a person is coming from.

I am more intolerant of my own errors and shortcomings than I am about someone elses. They don't call me Ms. Perfection for nothing, although it is better than it use to be.

Making a mistake at my bridge club early in the evening can affect my attitude (beating myself up and unforgiving of myself) and my play for several hours, although I am getting better and I am not as bad as I use to be, and I am aware now when I do it, before it use to carrying things for days.

[Lin]

I have a situation at one of my jobs were being TOLERANT is getting very hard. This lady gets paid to help me out, but instead she socializes, stands aroudn, and works on paperwork from HER job. I let our new boss know a little of it, but we will see if it gets any better. I jsut hope things go well.

The tough part is I really LIKE her. We email, we call on the phone, we go shopping, out to eat, etc,. It's jsut when I have an hour to get a job done and she does nto do her part, it frustrates me and i get quite INTOLERANT.

praying for tolerance on this one. I dont think this lady will change.

LIN

[caressa]

Dear Lin,

Some times for me it is just accepting things as is. That doesn't mean I have to like it. I haven't been able to be on my computer much for the last month and have just finished my second lot of antibiotics.

Often when I am not accepting, I am putting expectations on myself or on others. I am not always tolerant of my own shortcomings.

Not being able to post on my sites has caused a lot of grieving.
Acceptance is part of that grief and it has been difficult to accept my limitations.

[Lin]

I've been trying very hard to accept this is just how she is. It jsut frustrates me so much when she's being paid to work at my meeting and sh's doing ordering, paperwork, etc for a meeting she had a few hours earlier. She's not helping out the other receptionist at all. She's jsut getting paid to socialize and work on her own meetings. I dont like it when my members are lined up at the scale and she's sitting there working on her other paperwork. I think I need more than acceptance on this one.

LINDA