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Questions and Actions for the StepsRotate the below readings on a three day cycle until your sponsor/guide tells you to stopRead Emotional Sobriety the Next Frontier on Day 1Read 6th Step out of 12 and 12 on Day 2Read 7th Step out of 12 and 12 on Day 31st?Step Assignments:?1)?What in your life are you currently trying to manage?a.???????For example – I am trying to manage what my boss thinks of me, my eating, money, sleeping schedule etc….2)?How are the areas in your life that you are trying to manage going?? Both circumstantially and in your mind?3) What parts of your life are currently unacceptable to you that you want to find serenity in?4)?How has managing your own life failed you?? Can you make it work yourself or are you powerless?? If you can make it work yourself, what haven’t you tried to do so already?5) Share some experiences you had where you tried to stay stopped and found yourself drinking again?6) Share some experiences you had where you tried to control you’re drinking and found you couldn’t?7) Are you convinced that you will drink again if you do not stay spiritual fit and close to God? Do your actions match that, explain??2nd?Step Assignments:?1)?Why can’t your God manage the areas of your life that you saw you are trying to manage in step 1? What are your old ideas about God? Why is God not big enough?2)?What do you currently disbelieve about God that you will not allow him to manage everything?3)?Write the characteristics of a God that is big enough to take care of all of your life?3rd?Step Assignments:?Are you ready to give yourself and all the areas of your life to the God you wrote out in step 2?Are you willing to discard the old ideas/prejudices you have against God? What are they?How are you currently playing God in your life? Are you willing to quit?Are you convinced that you will only be successful if God is running the show?Use the principles in the 3rd step and the 3rd step prayer to write the 3rd step into a prayer using your own words.5)??Do the 3rd?step prayer with whomever you choose4th Step Assignment:Commit to your sponsor at least 2 half-hour sessions each week to write your inventory.Write a resentment, principles, fear, sex inventory as outlined in the big bookAsk God in each resentment to allow you to forgive the person, principle or institution before writing the 4th column. Think of the worst things you’ve done and ask yourself if you were capable of doing the same thing as the person you resent, if you are separate from God and spiritually sick?How to do a principle inventory: Principle inventory is to understand lifelong ideas you have about yourself and this world that are false.What are the self-defeating beliefs you have about yourselfWhy do you have this beliefHow does this affect my personal/sex relationships, self-esteem, pride, pocketbook and ambitionsYes or No is this belief trueHow have I been selfish, dishonest, afraid, inconsiderate and how has this caused harm.5th Step Assignments:Share your inventory with sponsor/guide in hopes of uncovering what makes you tickSpend an hour in quiet time and do the following:Write out a list of your assets (generous, loving, kind, humorous etc.)Write out a list of your defects (self-seeking, selfish, self-righteous etc.)Pray and Meditate on what you have learned so far through the first 5 steps and make sure you haven’t left anything out and have given it your all6th Step Assignments: ?Share your assets/defects list with your sponsor and talk about who you are and how God sees you.Ask God to become entirely willing for him to take all of you. Think about a person going into surgery and how they surrender their entire selves to the Dr. caring for them. Ask that you be just as willing to give yourself to God to do soul surgery on you.7th Step Assignments:Are you now ready to let God use you and do with you as He wishes? Are you now ready to be the Man/Women that God has made you to be and what you say in step 5 and 6?If so, say the 7th step prayer with whomever you want.8th Step Assignments:Write a list of people you owe amends to and categorize now, later and never with your sponsor.Pick three amends at a time with your sponsor.9th Step Assignments: Pray constantly and make it right. You are sitting on a pot of gold with the amends, don’t balk.10th Step Assignment: Read and discuss the 10th step out of the big book with your sponsor. Talk about how to stay current in sobriety. Have a regular meeting with your sponsor (in person or on phone to discuss the following items:Relationship with significant otherFearResentmentWorkAA Commitments/Prayer/Meditation LifeSponsorshipServiceCall 5 people whose sobriety you respect and ask them about how they practice this step?Follow the formula for the 10th step:WatchPrayTalk to sponsor or friend (text is ok)Make amendsThink of Others11th Step Assignment: Talk to people about different styles of meditation. Try them until you find what works for you. When you get stale with that practice, find another one and keep it moving and growing.Call 5 people whose sobriety you respect and ask them about how they practice this step?Pick someone out and exchange nightly review with them each night (text or email).12th Step Assignment:What principles do you want to live by for the rest of your life? Who do you want to be?Call 5 people whose sobriety you respect and ask them about how they practice this step?What challenges do you currently have living in those principles? Take those challenges to step 10 and 11 and grow with God. Your current difficulties are evidence to where God wants you to rely more on him.Go to meetings with newcomers and stimulate interest in them. Ask about how they are doing, have they been in A.A. before, have they attempted the steps, what’s their favorite sport, hobby etc.. Get their number and call them 3 times in the next 5 days just to say you were thinking of them and wondered how they are doing. Make a commitment to go to a meeting. If you are confident and have an attitude of helpfulness and are consistent in doing this then you will be a sponsor and remain a sponsor in no time.Give this message for free and for fun!In Love and Service please contact me to share your experience and any feedback you would want to give on this process to Alex Levi at arod.levi@ or 585-747-9740 ................
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