“Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane” (Chapter 6, Big Book)
When I’m in a bad way, I can do on-the-spot inventory to recognise I must dismiss thoughts of fear and resentment, I must switch from selfish to selfless living, and I must abandon planning, plotting, self-deception, secrecy, misrepresentation, or outright lying (the forms of deception). But then, through service, prayer, meditation, study, and gratitude, I must be raised to a higher plane. From that higher plane only can effective written inventory that gets to the core of the matter be written. One must wait for daybreak before surveying the terrain and plotting a course.