“The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.” (Page 60, Big Book)
Progress is measured by practice, not progression. How many Steps you’ve got through is progression. Progress is how much you’ve learned. I heard someone say recently that they had gone through Steps Three to Eight over eight hours with a sponsor, ready to go off and make amends. That’s certainly an impressive progression, but it is progress? Would someone who spends eight hours practising the simple ideas of Steps Ten and Eleven make more progress? Perhaps yes. Good work is intensive not extensive. Intensive means really getting into it. The Steps in a day is not intensive: it is by nature superficial. You can’t learn a language in a day, whatever the adverts say, and you can’t learn recovery in a day.