Step 10 Basics
This Step tells us to "continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admit it."
What is Step 10?
Step 11 focuses on improving this through prayer and meditation.
What is conscious contact with God (as we understood Him)?
This step involves carrying the message to other alcoholics.
What is Step 12?
Step 10 is a continuation of this earlier inventory step.
What is Step 4?
This short phrase summarizes the goal of Step 10.
What is "clean house"?
This is the key word that means keeping track of our actions daily.
What is inventory?
According to Step 11, we seek knowledge of God's will and this to carry it out.
What is the power?
We try to practice these in all our affairs, according to Step 12.
What are these principles (or all the steps)?
Step 10 encourages this kind of amends.
What is prompt or immediate amends?
This phrase from Step 11 implies surrender and listening.
What is "only for knowledge of His will"?
Step 10 encourages us to admit this when we identify it.
What is being wrong or a mistake?
This practice is recommended in Step 11 for spiritual growth.
What is meditation?
The act of sharing your experience, strength, and hope with another alcoholic.
What is 12th stepping or sponsorship?
When we feel this emotion, Step 10 suggests we ask God to remove it.
What is resentment or fear?
This Step 12 action reminds us to give freely what was given to us.
What is helping other alcoholics?
Step 10 is considered this kind of maintenance step.
What is a daily or ongoing maintenance step?
Step 11 involves both prayer and this quieter spiritual practice.
What is meditation?
Step 12 speaks of having had this as a result of these steps.
What is a spiritual awakening?
These three things are often examined in a Step 10 inventory.
What are resentments, fears, and harms caused?
One way to practice Step 11 each morning.
What is a morning meditation or prayer?
This spiritual principle is strongly associated with Step 10.
What is honesty?
This prayer is commonly associated with Step 11.
What is the St. Francis Prayer (or Serenity Prayer)?
This spiritual principle involves helping others without expecting anything in return.
What is service?
The AA literature suggests that we don't rest on these and instead continue to take inventory.
What is our laurels?
According to Step 10, we do this when we’re disturbed.
What is look inward (inventory), ask God, and make amends?