Newcomers are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Once we have cleaned up the wreckage of our pasts, we will want to avoid making any more messes.Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.It can help guide you in the best direction. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Continuing to take personal inventory can help you to stay clean and sober.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.Based on your business model and procedures, the time(s) when you take these measurements may change. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. Businesses take inventories regularly to re-calibrate, confirm, and set themselves up for a successful future.The heart of the suggested program of personal recovery is contained in Twelve Steps describing the experience of the earliest members of the Society: In simplest form, the AA program operates when a recovered alcoholic passes along the story of his or her own problem drinking, describes the sobriety he or she has found in AA, and invites the newcomer to join the informal Fellowship. The relative success of the AA program seems to be due to the fact that an alcoholic who no longer drinks has an exceptional faculty for "reaching" and helping an uncontrolled drinker,
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