Pre-program 12 Steps

Before working the 12 Steps, my internal world ran for the most part on the premises talked about in the following "Pre-program".  I still can be very selfish, self-centered and make decisions based on fear.  The 12 Steps shift the interior matrix to where the Higher Power is the center of the world, I take responsibility for my recovery and then I ask how I can be of service to the Higher Power and the Higher Power's children.  Simple...when I work the Steps...one day at a time.


                                            12 Steps of Pre-Program

1.  We admitted we were powerless over nothing - that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow us.

2.  Came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves and the rest of the world was insane.

3.  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.  Made a searching and fearless moral and immoral inventory of everyone we know.

5.  Admitted to the whole world at large the exact nature of everyone else's wrongs.

6.  Were entirely ready to make others straighten up and do right.

7.  Demanded others to either "shape up or ship-out".

8.  Made a list of all persons who had harmed us and became willing to go to any lengths to get even with them all.

9.  Got direct revenge on such people wherever possible, except when to do so would cost us our lives or at the very least, a jail sentence.

10.  Continued to take the inventory of others and when they were wrong promptly and repeatedly made them aware of it.

11.  Sought through bitching and nagging to improve our relations with others as we couldn't understand them at all, asking only that they knuckle under and do things our way.

12.  Having had a complete physical, emotional and spiritual breakdown as a result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.