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I’m John and I’m an alcoholic. I never thought I'd admit that to myself, let alone to others. At my local ALANO Club there's a big guy...

Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable. I began my journey of understanding, then...

Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Recall that when you read chapter 2 it is...

Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. What do we mean by "will" and our...

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The transition from taking Step 3 to taking Step 4 is immediate. ...

Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The first thing I like to appreciate...

Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Willingness is the foundation. Believing is the...

Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Humility (noun): a modest or low view of on'es own importance; humbleness; modesty;...

Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Big Book, pg. 76 "Now we need more...

Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Back in Chapter 5: How It...

Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. pg. 84-85 "This thought brings us to STEP TEN,...

Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge...

Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these...

...in process

p. xxix We must understand, if we are going to deal with alcoholics, that practicing alcoholics cannot differentiate the true from the...

..in process

Pg. 17 - borrowed from Joe & Charley Like all great teachers Bill is going to begin by telling us about something he assumes we already...

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COLUMBUS p. 51 - borrowed from Joe & Charley I think his story of Columbus is one of the greatest examples of what you can do when you...

Pg. 62 If God could direct your thinking it might become better. If you’re thinking becomes better, then your actions and your life’s...