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(1.) DO IT NOW!
Dear God, I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any fellow traveler, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
(2.) Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.
~ J.C. Watts, Jr. U.S. Congressman
(3.) Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous Page 98
(4.) When others asked "how's it going?" A newcomer earnestly 'working the steps' found himself saying "Somethimes, I think God's got the wrong man!" -- "The Promises were coming true for him, but he wondered if he deserved such wonderful results from practicing a simple program of action.
How to avoid recovering from alcoholism
"Twelve Steps of How Not to Recover" Presented by Searcy W. when he spoke at the 2000 AA International Convention in Minneapolis. (He became a member of AA in 1946.) Don't take these too seriously!
1) We admitted we were powerless over nothing, that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow us to.
2) We came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves and the rest of the world was insane.
3) We made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills and lives over to our care even though they couldn’t understand us at all.
4) We made a searching and fearless moral and immoral inventory of everybody we knew.
5) We admitted to the whole world at large the exact nature of everybody else’s wrongs.
6) We were entirely ready to make them straighten up and do right.
7) We demanded that others either shape up or ship out.
8) We made a list of all persons who had harmed us and became willing to get even with all of them.
9) We got direct revenge to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would cost our lives or at least a jail sentence.
10) We continued to take the inventory of others and, when they were wrong, promptly and repeatedly told them about it.
11) We sought through bitching and nagging to improve our relationship with others, as we couldn’t understand them at all, asking only that they knuckle down and do things our way.
12) Having had a complete physical, mental, emotional and spiritual breakdown as a result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.