me unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater that us could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Godas 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 exactnature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to makeamends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to doso would injure them or others.10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptlyadmitted it.11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contactwith God, as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried tocarry this message to alcoholics, and to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.Steps: 1-7: Self-MaintenanceSteps: 8-12: Righting your relations with others and god...
