Step One:
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course.

Step Twelve:
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Steps:

Ten: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him,

Steps:

Eighth: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Ninth: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Seventh Step:
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Seventh Tradition:
Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

Sixth Step:
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Sixth Tradition:
An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to …

Fifth Step:
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Fifth Tradition:
Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

Practice These Principles . . .
TRADITION FOUR CHECKLIST

Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
1. Do I insist there are only a few correct ways of doing things in AA?

TRADITION THREE CHECKLIST
The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
1. In my mind, do I prejudge some new AA members as losers?
2. Is there some kind of alcoholic whom I privately do not want in my AA group?

TRADITION TWO CHECKLIST
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.