Working the Steps

in just 17 weeks


Willingness is fleeting. The ego rebuilds quickly. It is highly suggested you complete the steps quickly so that you can be of service to others and be ready to do so. Your ego will begin to convince you that you have done this in your own power. Most who do not complete the steps drop out between 12 and 36 months. 


Because of this stark statistic we suggest you start on a rigorous course of action that will have you ready to carry the message to others within 6 months...the only way to assure you recover from addiction.


Week Three

Step One

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Week Four

Step Two

  1. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Week Five

Step Three

  1. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him

Week Six

Step Four - Our problems are of our own Making

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Week Seven

Step 4: Resentments

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Week Eight

Step 4: Fears

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Week Nine

Step Four: Sex Inventory

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Week Ten

Step Five

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs

Week Eleven

Step Six

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.     Defects of Character Worksheet

Week Twelve

Step Seven

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Week Thirteen

Step Eight

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Week Fourteen

Step Nine

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Week Fifteen

Step Ten

Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Defects of Character Worksheet: 

Week Sixteen

Step Eleven

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Week Seventeen

Step Twelve

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.