- Have a plan for the day, constructed by 7.00 p.m. at night for the following day
- The plan includes:
- Basic elements of looking after oneself
- Fulfilling obligations (service, carrying the message, helping others, work, etc.)
- Having a nice time
- The plan covers every moment from waking until going to bed
- Fill the day constructively
- Your life is none of your business
- Your conduct of your life is your business
- Permit absolutely no fear, self-absorption, self-pity, negativity, fretting
- Instead, spend spare mental energy on:
- Prayer
- Immersing oneself in a spiritual or religious tradition
- Use one that gives you a constructive way of seeing and acting
- 7.00 a.m. meditation meeting daily, arriving early, camera on, ready to share on the topic, share if asked
- 14 face-to-face AA meetings a week
- Get there early
- Leave late
- Hand up or voice up to share in each meeting
- Do not leave a meeting without sharing
- When sharing, share on experience of alcoholism and the programme, current programme actions, and current results
- Do ad hoc service
- Go for fellowship
- Do not complain or express any negativity whatsoever, in word, body language, manner, tone of voice, or facial expression
- If people enquire say you’re working the programme very intensively to combat some challenges, explain what action you're taking, and report on the positive outcomes you’re getting
- Otherwise, do not talk about yourself except to carry the message
- Find newcomers or others in trouble to listen to, take to meetings, and share experience with
- Debrief difficulties daily with only a very limited number of people, and people who will not indulge your self-pity and who will talk about the relationship with God as the chief way out of these and any other difficulties
- Report in with a sponsor after each meeting with: (a) what you shared (b) who you helped
- Spend one hour a day on spiritual reading, reporting in daily with what you have learned and how you have been applying it