1. Schedule time every day as
a matter of priority on your step work. An hour a day is reasonable.
2. Go to 5–7 meetings a
week. ALL must be Step or Big Book meetings in AA. They should be the same ones
every week. At least one must be the home group of your sponsor. After each
meeting, text your sponsor with three points of identification, three tools of
the programme you heard, and three things that inspired you.
3. Perform service at two or
more meetings a week. Those are your home groups. You turn up at those unless
you’re dead or out of town.
4. Follow the instructions on
pages 86 to 88 every day. Follow the instructions to the word.
5. Text or email your sponsor
your plan for the day in the morning, which you construct by asking God how you
can be helpful to others and writing down what God inspires you to do. The plan
should be complete and sufficiently detailed so you know all day every day what
you are supposed to be doing at any point in time. The plan should show all AA
actions of the day.
6. Be open to feedback from
your sponsor, and respond promptly and fully when your sponsor enters into a
dialogue on your plan for the day.
7. Read spiritual literature
for half an hour a day. Report to your sponsor what you learned from it and how
you can apply it to your life.
8. Throughout the day,
constantly ask God for strength to do what is on the plan. If you fail,
tell a trusted AA friend, then come back to the plan anyway.
9. If there are other
unhealthy habits (inappropriate sexual, romantic, or other obsessive
relationships, gambling, acting out with food or spending, etc.) ask God for
the strength to stick to the plan instead.
10. Don’t enter into a romantic
involvement until you’ve completed the first nine Steps. If you’re in one,
follow all of the instructions on the Just For Today card plus the instructions
regarding relationships on pages 98 to 99 and pages 117 to 118 of the Big Book,
which will keep you reasonably out of trouble until Steps Four through Nine
handle the underlying issues.
11. Call two people in AA every
day (one who has the same amount of sobriety or less; one who has more). Report
to your sponsor the fact you have done this.
12. Whenever you are fearful,
angry, guilty, ashamed, or obsessed with yourself, ask God to direct your mind
and actions towards the plan for the day.