The programme offers a lot, if a person wants what it has to offer. Here are some questions to determine whether you want what it has to offer:
Do you want the following?
- To admit complete defeat when it comes to combatting alcohol, drugs, and other addictive substances and behaviours
- To admit complete defeat when it comes to coping with and thriving in the rest of your life
- To set aside your present way of thinking and life and adopt an entirely new one
- To go through life sober, free of chemical alteration or enhancement of feeling, thought, and function*
- To withdraw all loyalty from the selfish, materialistic approach to life and to adopt a spiritual way of life as an alternative
- To learn to live life successfully based on spiritual principles, a programme, a fellowship of people, and a higher power
- To accept the world as it is and to fit yourself to be of maximum service to it
- To disregard others' errors or wrong and to focus solely on what needs to change in your beliefs, thinking, and behaviour
- To work systematically to uncover, discover, and discard all beliefs, thinking, and behaviour that do not work
- To replace those with beliefs, thinking, and behaviour that do work
- To confess all character defects and poor behaviour to others
- To make peace with everyone with whom you have had conflict by admitting your wrong without criticising or blaming them
- To go through each day doing not your will but God's: to contribute constructively to the world under God's guidance
- To spend much of your free time sponsoring others
*Setting aside legitimate questions of medication. Talk to a good doctor or psychiatrist about that.