Ali, Daily inventories are a good idea for individuals that have put together some sobriety and been through the steps with a sponsor. Being new it may be alittle early to flood yourself with that much internal thought. Where are you at with your sobriety and program?
Step 10 is where we continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it. Keep our side of the street clean.
Aloha Ali...Just for me daily means...on going 24/7 because at stake is my spiritual balance. Most times I get off balance without any help from anyone or anything helping out. I inventory my thoughts and my attitudes, my actions and reactions. The consequences regard my relationship with my HP and then everything around me. (Vertical alignment). When I was drinking that term didn't exist and I had so many problems with life around me. I needed to stop drinking in all senses of the word and then get sober and sane. I have lots of experience taking other peoples' invertories and now keep it so much more simple by only taking mine. Questions like "How am I standing in respect to my HP's will" and "Is my life reflecting the best I can rather than the apathetic, disinterested approach?" These are my questions. Another short question is "Am I being responsible?".
The word "continued" to take personal inventory, for me is a personal choice to stay on the journey.
I've always heard the you can work step 10 as you're working the other steps leading up to it. It will certainly shorten your 8 step list. As far as how to do it? Take a little time in the evening and reflect on the days events and look at questionable interactions with others to see how equitable your side was, while being prepared to "promptly admit it" if you were wrong. As we get better at this, we'll realize it right after (and apologize) or catch ourselves before we lose our cool. It becomes a function of getting tired of making amends and preventing the need to (or mostly doing so).
-- Edited by StPeteDean on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 02:53:42 AM
i'ts 18 months since I last had a drink, but i've not yet completed the steps - rubbish I know. Had 2 different sponsors neither have been quite right - help! where do i go form here?
Ali - If the two people you have asked to be your sponsor weren't right, ask someone else! I know it's not always easy finding someone you feel comfortable enough with to share an inventory and all else it entails, but 18 months is imo a long time to go without completing the steps. Start to ask yourself if you are using it as an excuse to avoid the steps? I fired my first sponsor and some people criticized me for not wanting to work the steps. I'm glad because I quickly found another and started the steps with her. Soon after that, my first sponsor drank. There was a reason I was uncomfortable with her but it didn't keep me from my own sobriety. But it helped to have people to spur me on to action. So hopefully we can do the same for you!
