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.