Me??? NUTS??? Not today people, not today!

Adrienne shares a great post over at ‘12 Steps; Think About It’ and it gives me a tool I’m going to hold on to for a long time…

When things get crazy in my house and I feel like shouting, “Stop the world I want to get off!” I have often struggled to find something that makes me stop and think.  Sure, I can say, “Stop!” or I can think “Stop!” but the world still keeps going around. What that does to me is put what is at odds with what I want as the focus in my mind.  That doesn’t work for me.   Most often the stop the world I want to get off feeling  has to do with my children.  You know, they get to that age where it doesn’t matter what all the evidence says, what the book says, what the rest of the world knows is correct, or what the teachers say, in their eyes they are RIGHT.  Or they are at that age where their answer is always “No!”.  With four children under 12 this happens quite frequently in my house.  So I do my best to try to move forward. Usually with a statement such as, “I’m going nuts!”

Yep, you guessed it.  Well now when I say that I will forever start laughing.  NUTS now means…Not Using The Steps.  Best acronym ever!  Because truly when the world gets crazy around me and I start to feel it affect me, that is what I’m doing, or not doing to be more precise.

So think about this for a minute. Think about in our lives all the opportunities we might have to use this acronym. And if you think of more please feel free to share the phrases!

Someone does or says something completely incomprehensible to us..and we think “That’s NUTS!” We find it incomprehensible because we’re “Not Using The Steps.”

Source: Me??? NUTS??? Not today people, not today! « 12 Steps – Think About It!

When you feel yourself getting NUTS, remember that just for today you can do something for 12 hours that would appall you if you felt you had to keep it up for a lifetime. Read more of the ‘just for todays’ here…