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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day so what we've done so far is um is uh understand that we're alcoholic.

That's the first part.

Then become willing to believe.

And then make a decision to live a spiritual life through the third step prayer.

And that's how far we've gotten now.

So what's next?

It talks about launching that we launched out on this inventory.

And what we've done so far is we've come to terms with our alcoholism and we turn to God.

But see, the key to success in Alcoholics Anonymous

is trust God clean house and work with others.

And so now we've got to clean the house.

Now we've introduced alcoholism and got into the equation,

and now we've got to go look. Here's where most people

really fall away. Most people, I don't think most people in alcoholics or most of people

come into Alcoholics Anonymous ever get an inventory done.

A lot of people do.

But see, even if you're in a stepworking group, you're in the minority in Alcoholics Anonymous. I can tell you for a fact that I don't think 95% of the people in Alcoholics Anonymous do an 11th step.

I don't think most people follow those directions,

and the problem is that if we're unwilling to participate into this thing,

in its entirety, we're settling for half a loaf.

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