Practical Lessons For Growth (follows the 12-steps)
1). Admitted we were powerless - our lives have become unmanageable
2). Came to believe a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
3). Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
4). Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
5). Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
6). Entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
7). Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
7). Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
8). Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all
9). Made direct amends to such people where ever possible except when to do so would injure them or other
9). Made direct amends to such people where ever possible except when to do so would injure them or other
10). Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, prompting admitted it
11). Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out
12). Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs