Alcoholics Anonymous Flashcards
What I Want to Remember
Step 1
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—
that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2
Came to believe that a Power greater than our-
selves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 4
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves.
Step 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 6
Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
Step 7
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure
them or others.
Step 10
Continued to take personal inventory and when
we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 11
Sought through prayer and meditation to im-
prove our conscious contact with God as we un-
derstood Him, praying only for knowledge of
His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 12
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result
of these steps, we tried to carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all
our affairs.
Tradition 1
Our common welfare should come first; personal
recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
Tradition 2
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate
authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our
group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants;
they do not govern.
Tradition 3
The only requirement for A.A. membership is a
desire to stop drinking.
Tradition 4
Each group should be autonomous except in matters
affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
Tradition 5
Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry
its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
Tradition 6
An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend
the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise,
lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us
from our primary purpose.
Tradition 6
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
Tradition 7
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
Tradition 8
Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever
nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special
workers.
Tradition 9
A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible to
those they serve.
Tradition 10
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside
issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into
public controversy.
Tradition 11
Our public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
Tradition 12
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our
Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before
personalities
Where can the 3rd step be found in the Big Book?
Alcoholics Anonymous page 60
Where can the10th step be found in the Big Book?
Alcoholics Anonymous Page 84
Where can 11th step be found in the Big Book?
Alcoholics Anonymous page 85
Where can th12th step be found in the Big Book?
The Chapter ‘Working With Otheres’
When, Where And By Who Was Alcoholics Alcoholics founded?
It was founded in 1935 byBill WilsonandBob SmithinAkron, Ohio.
