12 Steps in 12 Months: A Practical Guide to Implementing the Principals of the 12 Step Program into Your Life
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Most people say that they're excited and hopeful about the principal ideas outlined in the twelve step program, but never truly develop the discipline to incorporate each step into their daily lives.
So many people are living proof that if you develop the habits to truly make these philosophies part of your existence, then permanent sobriety and a life of joy, love, and happiness are absolutely possible.
Step One: We Admit That We Are Powerless Over Our Addiction And That Our Lives Have Become Unmanageable
Step Two: Come To Believe That A Power Greater Than Ourselves Can Restore Us To Sanity
Step Three: Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him
Step Four: Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
Step Five: Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
Step Six: We Are Entirely Ready to have God Remove All of the Defects of Our Character
Step Seven: Humbly Asked Him to Remove My Shortcoming
Step Eight: Make A List of All Persons We Have Harmed and Become Willing To Make Amends to Them All
Step Nine: Make Direct Amends to Such People Wherever Possible, Except When to do so Would Injure Them or Others
Step Ten: Continue To Take Personal Inventory And When We Are Wrong, Promptly Admit It
Step Eleven: Seek Through Prayer And Meditation To Improve Our Conscious Contact With God As We Understand Him
Step Twelve: Having Had A Spiritual Awakening As The Result Of The Twelve Step Program, We Try To Carry This Message To Alcoholics And To Practice These Principles In All Our Affairs
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