“Then we had been told that, so far as alcohol is concerned, self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liability. Our sponsors declared that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it. There was, they said, no such thing as the personal conquest of this compulsion by the unaided will.” (Page 22, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
If I’m self-directed, and self directs me to drink, I’ll drink, which is why I need to be God-directed.