“We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing” (Chapter 5, Big Book)
“… we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing …” (Chapter 6, ibid.)
“… but be sure you are doing the right thing …” (Chapter 7, ibid.)
“At this stage of our progress we are under heavy pressure and coercion to do the right thing. We are obliged to choose between the pains of trying and the certain penalties of failing to do so. These initial steps along the road are taken grudgingly, yet we do take them. We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognise it as a necessary aid to our survival.” (Step Seven, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
“Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God’s help and guidance—meanwhile resolving to do the right thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?” (Step Nine, ibid.)
“Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.” (Step Eleven, ibid.)
Six references to ‘the right thing’. Keeping the programme simple can boil down to simply seeking to do not what I want but ‘the right thing’. That is enough to keep me occupied.