V: Success and Balance

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be a success and making a decent living to provide for ourselves and our family, but it is easy to confuse"our net worth with our self worth" and make money, possessions, powerand ego our God.

When this happens we start to neglect our real needs andinstead of our actions helping, we end up hurting ourselves and our loved ones - always seek balance.

The only advice I can offer to those overly ambitious individuals that are looking for that elusive state of peace, prosperity and happiness as well as a license to live any way they want and defy the laws of nature is to do as the program suggests and "find someone that has what you want" so they can learn their secret for yourself.

Find someone in the program that is very successful, very rich, very overextended and pulled in all directions to the point of breaking - yet at the same time honest, generous, compassionate, serene, thin and healthy and is now immune to their various addictions calling their name and can do anything they want in life with impunity and never worry about slipping with their program...

Good Luck! And, if you never quite find your mentor, you can always try scaling back, living within your means and asking the "fit or acquit" question yourself while you look for recovery throughout your day.