You do the 12 Steps, then what?

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<b>bluidkiti</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 8:42 am<br>
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You have done the 12 Steps then what do you do? <img src="images/smiles/13.gif" alt="grin" border="0"> <hr>
<b>peajaye</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 8:52 am<br>

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Help someone else work the 12 steps. Continue building character through the 10th and 11th steps.
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When I took a year or two away from meetings, when I came back I felt like a newcomer and had accumulated another 4th step. I worked through the steps again and now am working with others. <hr>
<b>janbear</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 9:04 am<br>

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<div align="center"><div class="codetitle">Quote:</div><div class="quotediv">Help someone else work the 12 steps. Continue building character through the 10th and 11th steps. </div></div>
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<b>MegaDrummer</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 9:06 am<br>
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The one thing that I've heard in the rooms that makes perfect sense to me is that "you never graduate from these steps".
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Depending on how you look at it, that can be intimidating or comforting.
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I choose to focus on the later. <img src="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" border="0"> <hr>
<b>janbear</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 9:11 am<br>

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<img src="images/smiles/17.gif" alt="nod" border="0"> yeah, megadrummer once i thought i did 'graduate' right after that i relapsed. May i never get to thinking again that i will graduate. <hr>
<b>Cassie</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 9:22 am<br>
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Give freely what has been given to you - through sponsorship, chairing meetings, sweeping the floor, making coffee - whatever is needed. <img src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" border="0"> <hr>

<b>bradh</b> - Tue 28 Feb, 2006 12:22 pm<br>
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<div align="center"><div class="codetitle">bluidkiti wrote:</div><div class="quotediv">You have done the 12 Steps then what do you do? </div></div>
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I was told that steps 10-12 are to be done on a daily basis - I don't do much 12th-step work, but I practice 10 at night and 11 in the morning.

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I was also told to do 4 through 9 on a regular (yearly?) basis, because new issues come up as we continue on with our lives. I don't know how relevant this is for folks, but I've done a few cycles since I've been clean and sober. I always find out new things about myself each time. <hr>
<b>Clean42day</b> - Sat 04 Mar, 2006 1:22 pm<br>
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well I was taught and once we work them....then we live them into daily actions in our everyday lives....not just in relation to recovery and recovering people but by practicing these principals in all our affairs.
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sometimes just being a living example in action is carrying a message!
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people retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 95% of what they teach.
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Being a sponsor has brought my recovery full circle. I cannot teach or guide someone, without practing what I teach and walking the walk myself in action.
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everytime I help a sponsee through a step....it reconfirms it in my life and re-ancors it in my own actions insdie and outside of the rooms.
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what a gift!</span> <hr>
<b>Misselle</b> - Sat 04 Mar, 2006 10:55 pm<br>
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<span style="color: darkred;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Yeah - steps 10-12 are musts everyday. I have been trying to look for ways to help others as well. It is important not to get complacent, as everyone has said. It took me almost 2 years to get through the steps with 2 relapses along the way. Now I know the value of my recovery and hopefully I will not mess it up again. But if I do (God forbid) - at least I know where to go this time!</span></span> <hr>
<b>Cassie</b> - Sun 05 Mar, 2006 9:31 am<br>
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<div align="center"><div class="codetitle">Clean42day wrote:</div><div class="quotediv"><div align="center"><div class="codetitle">Quote:</div><div class="quotediv">You have done the 12 Steps then what do you do?</div></div>

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well I was taught and once we work them....then we live them into daily actions in our everyday lives....not just in relation to recovery and recovering people but by practicing these principals in all our affairs.
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sometimes just being a living example in action is carrying a message!
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people retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 95% of what they teach.
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Being a sponsor has brought my recovery full circle. I cannot teach or guide someone, without practing what I teach and walking the walk myself in action.
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everytime I help a sponsee through a step....it reconfirms it in my life and re-ancors it in my own actions insdie and outside of the rooms.
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what a gift!</span></div></div>
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Well said. <img src="images/smiles/happyclap.gif" alt="clap" border="0">