janbear
06-07-2006, 04:29 PM
THE TWELVE TRADITIONS INVENTORY
(from Oct 89 AAGrapevine)
1. Do I share my concerns I have for the group welfare with other members
of my group?
2. Do I participate in group business and group conscience meetings
wherever I am?
3. Am I a good leader, serving my group according to the group conscience
and not making decision and rules based on what I personally feel is good
for the group?
4. Do I encourage my group not to make decisions and carry out actions that
may adversely affect other AA groups or AA as a whole?
5. Do I encourage my group to cooperate but not affiliate or imply
affiliation with outside entities?
6. Do I notify the proper people when I observe an anonymity break at the
level of press, radio, TV and films?
7. Do I support my group by contributing money to help the group pay its
expenses, thus enabling it to be self-supporting?
8. Do I encourage my group to contribute extra funds to the service
entities within AA?
9. Do I guide the people I sponsor in carrying the message of recovery as
described in the AA literature?
10. Do I encourage my group to stick to our primary purpose of recovery from
alcoholism?
11. When speaking at meetings do I keep to my personal story on alcoholism
and my recovery from alcoholism?
12. Do I practice placing principles before personalities in everything I
do?
13. If a non-alcoholic comes to a closed AA meeting, do I lovingly take that
person aside and in a gentle and courteous manner explain that Alcoholic
Anonymous is for recovery from alcoholism? Do I offer assistance in steering
that individual to a program of recovery for his or her particular
addiction?
14. Do I continue to practice humility in all that all I do?
If I can honestly answer yes to these questions, I know that my
personal program of recovery from alcoholism is on the right track.
If I have to debate any of these questions in my mind, I know there is
something in my thinking that is causing turmoil within myself. Most of the
time, the solution has been rereading and reapplying the Twelve Traditions
to my complicated mind to get my personal program of recovery strong and
healthy again. By equally combining the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
I no longer work half a program of recovery.
THE 12 STEPS SAVE ME FROM MYSELF
THE 12 TRADITIONS SAVE AA FROM OURSELVES
(from Oct 89 AAGrapevine)
1. Do I share my concerns I have for the group welfare with other members
of my group?
2. Do I participate in group business and group conscience meetings
wherever I am?
3. Am I a good leader, serving my group according to the group conscience
and not making decision and rules based on what I personally feel is good
for the group?
4. Do I encourage my group not to make decisions and carry out actions that
may adversely affect other AA groups or AA as a whole?
5. Do I encourage my group to cooperate but not affiliate or imply
affiliation with outside entities?
6. Do I notify the proper people when I observe an anonymity break at the
level of press, radio, TV and films?
7. Do I support my group by contributing money to help the group pay its
expenses, thus enabling it to be self-supporting?
8. Do I encourage my group to contribute extra funds to the service
entities within AA?
9. Do I guide the people I sponsor in carrying the message of recovery as
described in the AA literature?
10. Do I encourage my group to stick to our primary purpose of recovery from
alcoholism?
11. When speaking at meetings do I keep to my personal story on alcoholism
and my recovery from alcoholism?
12. Do I practice placing principles before personalities in everything I
do?
13. If a non-alcoholic comes to a closed AA meeting, do I lovingly take that
person aside and in a gentle and courteous manner explain that Alcoholic
Anonymous is for recovery from alcoholism? Do I offer assistance in steering
that individual to a program of recovery for his or her particular
addiction?
14. Do I continue to practice humility in all that all I do?
If I can honestly answer yes to these questions, I know that my
personal program of recovery from alcoholism is on the right track.
If I have to debate any of these questions in my mind, I know there is
something in my thinking that is causing turmoil within myself. Most of the
time, the solution has been rereading and reapplying the Twelve Traditions
to my complicated mind to get my personal program of recovery strong and
healthy again. By equally combining the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
I no longer work half a program of recovery.
THE 12 STEPS SAVE ME FROM MYSELF
THE 12 TRADITIONS SAVE AA FROM OURSELVES