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i loved this...was shared by someone in alanon chat room...hopefully it will make you laugh (good for healing)...12 unusual steps...hugs iona54
1.We admitted we were powerless over nothing. We could manage our lives perfectly and we could manage those of anyone else that would allow it.
2. Came to believe that there was no power greater than ourselves, and the rest of the world was insane
3. Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their wills and their lives over to our care
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone we knew
5. Admitted to the whole world at large the exact nature of their wrongs
6. Were entirely ready to make others straighten up and do right.
7. Demanded others to either "shape up or ship out
8. Made a list of anyone who had ever harmed us and became willing to go to any lengths to get even with them all
9. Got direct revenge on such people whenever possible except when to do so would cost us our own lives, or at the very least, a jail sentence.
10. Continued to take inventory of others, and when they were wrong promptly and repeatedly told them about it.
11. Sought through nagging to improve our relations with others as we couldn't understand them at all, asking only that they knuckle under and do things our way.
12. Having had a complete physical, emotional and spiritual breakdown as a result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.
That's great, thank you. It reminds me of something else I found somewhere:
The Senility Prayer God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The memory to greet the ones I always liked, And the eyesight to tell the difference
hahaha, that is GREAT--- I'm sure we've all been there at one point in our lives too and that's why we are here now to turn all those steps around. :)))
