What is and after care plan?

A series of tasks you must complete each day to increase your chances of long term sobriety.

What is a positive affirmation?

A technique used to program the subconscious mind to affect change by repeating or meditating on a key phrase to bring about the desired outcome.

What is a goal?

Desired result a person plans and commits to achieve.

What is the 2nd step?

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

What is step #7?

Humbly asked Him to remove our shorcomings.

What are examples of after care tasks?

Going to meetings, calling your sponsor, exercising regularly.

Who is Lao Tzu?

A taoism and confusionism philosopher.

What is a short term goal?

A goal that will be met within a one month period.

What is Step #4?

Made a searching and fearless moral invetory of ourselves

What is Step #10?

Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

What are relaxation techniques?

Meditation, yoga, massage, prayer, deep breathing

What is re-calculating?

What you do when you get lost or make a wrong turn.

What is the S.M.A.R.T method?

Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely.

What is Step #6?

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of characters

What is Step #12?

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.

What is the time it takes for a craving to pass?

20 mins

What is Gratefullness.org?

An organization (website) that provides daily affirmations.

What is an example of a long term goal?

A completion of one year sober.

What is Step #1?

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable

What is Step # 11?

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the poer to carry that out.

What will dramatically increase your chances of recovery?

Honestly following your after care plan to the best of your ability

What is a successful state of mind?

Thinking of yourself as a success.

What is measurable?

Setting a specific timeframe to complete your goal.

What are Steps #3 and 5?

(Two Steps) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him and Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

What are Steps # 7 & 8?

(Two Steps) Made a list of all person we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all AND Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.