Not Sure You Are Ready to Stop Drinking?
Not Sure the 12 Steps Are the Right Program?
A Sample Weekly Schedule
Rather than focusing on attending meeting(s) every day, we focus on working the 12 steps. Working them in order. Working them fully until each one is completed. A current state example:
- 1 day Full Time Job & AA meeting
- 1 day Full Time Jo & Bible Study
- 3 day Full Time Job
- 1 day Day Off & Service Work
- 1 day Day Off, Home Group & Church
- All Days Upon Awakening, Immediate Ammends, Step Work (current step)
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A realistic time commitment: Depending on how long we drank, how serious the withdrawal was, and how close to the end we were, we may spend 1–2 hours a day working our program or helping someone else. Even so, most of us find we have far more productive hours than before — because of the enormous amount of time we used to lose to drinking.
If the 12 steps are a fit, we can start discussing how service work works, how and why we pray, why we use "God" instead of "Higher Power," how the 12 steps are a summary of a handful of chapters in the Bible that give even more instruction, and so on.