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I want to stay here for a while what have we dealt with we've been talking about inventory right

something that I didn't mention is how to set yourself up for inventory.

This is what I currently do and have been doing.

If I'm going to write inventory, I say a set-aside prayer.

There's one, I think I threw one in the guide.

A version of a set-aside prayer.

Ask I to set aside what I think this process is going to be.

I ask God to remove my fear of what I'm going to see about myself. And I ask God to show me what I need to see. Show me his truth. What is it that I has to come out on this inventory? When I start, sit down and start writing the process, I do it just like as it is out of the book. Column 1, person institution principle, column 2.

You work vertically.

I don't write horizontally.

I don't say column 1, column 2, column 3, column 4, and then try to get back to column 1 again.

It doesn't work that way for me.

I write vertically.

I write all of my column 1s, all the people, persons, institutions, principles.

Then I go to column 2.

What did they harm me? And then I go to column three. I work it across. When I read inventory, I read it horizontally. Column one, column two, column three, column four. Next. Boom. That way. I ask God to take me into that space. If for some reason I don't finish that inventory, for whatever reason, just like we end the meetings here, I stop. I ask God to take me out of the place that I write inventory from. Keep me safe and protected until I can come back and be with him to write more inventory. Why do I do that? Because I guarantee you, if you don't do this, you will ask God to take you into the place of inventory. You will write inventory, put it down and say, I'm tired, let's go to a meeting. You will go to a meeting and they'll say, hey, you've got a topic and it'll be something

that's going on on your inventory, and you'll raise your hand, and you will fist up with a group,

and you had absolutely no intention to fist up in with that group, and it'll destroy you.

And you won't realize that you created your own problem because there will be a trust issue now you hear it come out of your mouth and you can't get it back and now you can't trust your own home group because now you don't want to be there because they know something about you and they know this deep intimate secret because you haven't finished the inventory you haven't gone through all the fears and clean the rest of it up on a one-on-one once you've done that you've given it to god fifth step it formally, most people, who cares if they hear it?

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