- We admitted we were powerless over controlling every detail of our life --- and that as a result of our controlling spirit, our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that ONLY a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Became entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to controlling people everywhere (without insisting they listen of course), and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
A new 12-Step Program?
I really think they should start a 12-Step program for Control Freaks. But they couldn't call it "CA" since that's taken (cocaine anonymous). They already have workaholics anonymous, but I don't think that completely fits. Here are my proposed 12 steps:
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