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Let's move further into step 10 now. If you take a look at the, some of you have this

throw away, I print up a, some people might appreciate this, and some people might have absolutely

no use for you. I just wanted to share with you at the beginning of my morning regiment of prayer.

I say, I am powerless.

My life is unmanageable.

I know that you will restore me to sanity.

I turn my will and my life over you.

That's the first three steps.

And then I say the third step prayer.

And then I say the seventh step prayer. of mine and I will before we're talking about repeating the same kinds of behavior over and over again repeating the same kind of resentments coming up and what I like to do is let's

say I have a problem with my boss and and there's certain defects on that that appear every time

that I'm self-centered I have unreasonable expectations of fear of confrontation self-pity self-scentity

tricked everybody like crap not just me whatever the thing is that when I say my seventh step prayer in the morning, I can have a little extra time with my higher power and say, you know what? I'm going to go in this morning. What should I do? I need to get rid of the self-sand-sand-ness in this area. What should I do? And sometimes the inner voice would say, stay away from them. Sometimes the voices say, go in and make them coffee coffee. There's no hard and fast rules about it. I talked briefly before about that kind of spirit and alcoholics anonymous. If you study the history of

AA, one thing is really clear. There was nobody was saying, this is the way it gets done.

These guys were wackos. They would drop, Bill was dropping acid. I mean, repass it on. There's a

whole paragraph. A matter of fact, he dropped so much acid that some guys had to go, Bill, stop.

You're playing with a headless doll under a black light. Stop it already. He started eating niacin and like preaching niacin. I mean, they would stay up at night and play with a Ouija board. My point here is that they were real seekers. And the people that I've hung out with and get most from an AA are seekers and people who stay spiritually pliant and inclusive. And because of that, I've been, my sponsors have had an opportunity to grow me up spiritually, and it's

really been wonderful.

And then what I did was is I went through the section on Step 11 in Chapter 6, and I sort of

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