As practicing compulsive gamblers, we were all too familiar with depression, that pile-up of dark feelings that seemed to close over our heads at regular intervals. Even now, when I am not making progress at the rate I expect I should be, when I expect a total turnaround in my spiritual self overnight, those familiar feelings of gloom can come calling on me again, if I hold the door open for them.Do I recognize that my goals of perfection are directly related to my feeling of depression? Do I admit that depression today, in my recovery, is less debilitating and more within my power to change?Today I Pray … When I am immobilized by depression, may I set small, reasonable goals-as miniature perhaps as saying hello to a child, washing my own coffee cup, neatening my desk, offering a short prayer. May I scrap my own script for failure, which sets me up for deeper depression.Today I Will Remember … Goals set too high set me back.A Day at a Time ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH⁠⁠⁠G.A. A New Beginning ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC⁠⁠--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jamesh-acm/support