A purpose for using a Tool List is to enable newcomers to more easily and rapidly participate ina Recovery meeting. With this in mind SAA. encourages you to use this list when you
initially attend our meetings, until you feel comfortable without it. Your Group Leader may have
other guidelines for you regarding the use of this list in meetings. We are glad that you are here
and encourage you to participate and endorse for your participation!

Some Basic Recovery Tools

• Treat mental health as a business and not as a game
  
• Humor is our best friend, temper is our worst enemy
  
• If you cant change an event you can change your attitude towards it
  
• Be self-led, not symptom-led
  
• Symptoms are distressing but not dangerous
  
• Temper is the intellectual blindness to the other side of the story
  
• Comfort is a want, not a need
  
• There is no right or wrong in the trivialities of every day life
  
• Calm begets calm, temper begets temper
  
• Dont take our own dear selves too seriously
  
• Feelings should be expressed and temper suppressed
  
• Helplessness is not hopelessness
  
• Some people have a passion for self-distrust
  
• Temper maintains and intensifies symptoms
  
• Do things in part acts
  
• Endorse for the effort, not only for the performance
  
• Have the courage to make a mistake
  
• Feelings are not facts
  
• Do the things you fear and hate to do
  
• Fear is a belief-beliefs can be changed
  
• Every measure of self-control leads to a measure of self-respect and ultimately self-confidence
  
• Decide, plan, and act ,
  
• A firm decision steadies me
  
• Anticipation is often worse than realization
  
• Replace an insecure thought with a secure thought
  
• Bear the discomfort in order to gain comfort
  
• Hurt feelings are just beliefs not shared
  
• Lower your standards and your performance will rise
  
• Things happen by chance and not by choice
  People do things that annoy us, not to annoy us