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The question is, how many meetings should a newcomer go to?

Let me put you this way.

I do some work with some sober living homes out in my area about an hour from where I live and they require a lot of meetings if you're if you're going to if you're working full time they require a require a minimum of 14 meetings a week. All right? The message is this. Nothing. Nothing gets in the way of a constant connection and commitment to Alcoholics Anonymous. Working full-time? Terrific. Then you'll only do 14 meetings this week.

Get what I'm saying?

So those guys are at the 6.15 a.m. meeting and they go to the 6.15 to 17 a.m. meeting at the 502 club before they go to work.

After work, very easy to hit at least one of the many, many meetings that are being in that immediate area weekends doubling up shouldn't be a problem so two a day is nothing the record

is held by john c fifty four meetings in one week.

So if you're a newcomer, I would suggest a meeting a day,

suddenly doesn't sound like much, does it?

Go to a meeting a day.

Why not?

I think in the beginning, I mean, what we're doing in the beginning is different than any other time.

What we're doing in the beginning is building a foundation upon which we will stand free men and women.

Free of the beast.

Free of the enslavement of alcoholism and drug addiction.

We're building that foundation.

I would suggest that it requires constant involvement.

Right?

I mean, I don't want to build an okay foundation foundation i want to know that my foundation kicks ass that's what i want to know so i'm going to be involved on a daily basis i'm calling my

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