My thought for today is Complacency. It is not a conscious choice to stop doing something; it is often a slow feeling that I have done enough, that what I did yesterday is enough for today and will be enough for tomorrow. In AA, we call complacency "resting on our laurels". A common thought is that a slip happens long before I take a drink. I start believing that since everything is okay now, then the problem is solved and I ease up on my program. I start thinking that I've gone to plenty of meetings and that I shouldn't need to keep going every day. I stop meeting with or calling up my sponsor and I stop hanging around with or having conversations with other sober members. I start easing God out and before I know it, I'm in detox trying to figure out what went wrong. I was at a meeting last night and a longtimer came in looking for a speaker for the noon meeting today. My first thought was I do enough, let someone else do it. My next thought was this is what they mean by resting on my laurels. So, I made a call and I'm the speaker today. I don't know if that will prevent me from ever having a slip but it will prevent me from having one today.
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