1. I decided I could handle alcohol, if other people would just quit trying to run my life.
2. I firmly believe that there is no greater power than myself, and anyone who says it isn't so is insane.
3. I made a decision to remove my will and my life from God, who didn't understand me anyway.
4. I made a searching and thorough moral inventory of everyone I knew, so they couldn't fool me and take advantage.
5. I sought these people out and tried to get them to admit to me, by God, the exact nature of their defects of character.
6. I became willing to help these people get rid of their defects of character.
7. I became humble enough to ask these people to remove their shortcomings.
8. I made a list of all the people who had harmed me, and waited patiently for a chance to get even with them all.
9. I got even with these people whenever possible, except when to do so would get me into trouble also.
10. I continued to take eveybody's inventory and when they were wrong, which was most of the time, promptly made them admit it.
11. I sought through concentration of my will-power t get God, who didn't understand me anyway, to see that my ideas were best and He ought to give me the power to carry them out.
12. I have maintained my drunkenness for twenty-five years with these steps, and can thoroughly recommend them to other alcoholics who don't want to lose their hard-earned status as drunks, but wish to be left alone, to practice alcoholism in everything they do, for the rest of their lives.