Commitment seems to be something that most alcoholics shy away from.  We believe that the grass is always greener on the other side.  We use phrases like “I guess,” I’ll have to see,” and “call me later’ among others.  We feel like wild spirits free to roam the world as we please.  We feel stifled

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This is another one of the promises.  I don’t know about you but when I came into the program, I had a pretty bad attitude toward everything.  I felt as if life should be handed to me on a silver platter because I was so wonderful.  I felt entitled to everything and didn’t care one

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Being of service to others and the program is crucial to a program of recovery.  Services helps to diminish our selfishness and self-centeredness.  It also helps us gain in humility.  When we come into the program the only person, we are of service to is ourselves.  This helps to keep the cycle of drinking and

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“Perception” often does not get enough attention in 12 Step settings.  Perception is how an individual sees or perceives something to be.  For an example let’s use a banana.  One side of it has brown spots on it and the other side is solid yellow. Picture someone sitting on either side of the banana.  One

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“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a person in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”  (Pg 568, 4th edition, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, by Herbert Spencer) This quotation baffled me for years after I became

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