Writing Assignment:

1. Have you arrived at the “conclusion: that my primary character defects representing instincts gone astray have been primary cause of my addiction and my failure at life?”

2. Are you willing to work hard at the elimination of your worst of these defects?
2a. Who are you willing to work with to eliminate those troublesome character defects?

Questions directly from page 50:4 – 51:0
3. When and how, and in just what instances did my selfish pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me?
4. What people were hurt, and how badly?
5. Did I spoil my marriage and injure my children?
6. Did I jeopardize my standing in the community?
7. Just how did I react to these situations at the time?
8. Did I burn with a guilt that nothing could extinguish?
9. Or did I insist that I was the pursued and not the pursuer, and thus absolve myself?
10. How have I reacted to frustration in sexual matters?
11. When denied did I become vengeful or depressed?
12. Did I take it out on other people?
13. If there was rejection or coldness at home, did I use this as a reason for promiscuity?

Questions directly from pg.51:1
14. In addition to my addiction problem, what character defects contributed to my financial instability?
15. Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict?
16. Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy by bluffing, cheating, lying, or evading responsibility?
17. Or by gripping that others failed to recognize my truly exceptional abilities?
18. Did I overvalue myself and play the big shot?
19. Did I have such unprincipled ambition that I double-crossed and undercut my associates?
20. Was I extravagant?
21. Did I recklessly borrow money caring whether it was repaid or not?
22. Was I pinch penny, refusing to support my family properly?
23. Did I cut corners financially?
24. What about the “quick money” deals, stock market and the races?

AA Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions-Step Four pgs.48:3 – 49:2,4

Writing Assignment:

1.After you look these seven words up (#1-7 above) and know their meaning, please write on your experiences with these character defects?
1a.Write how they have caused you much pain, broken relationships and perpetuated your addictions?

2.Fear – a soul sickness. How in your own experience is this statement true?

3.Write on the four outcomes that unreasonable fears produce when our instincts are not satisfied? (“…covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, and be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.” pg. 49:1)

4.Are you still grabbing for more of everything than you need?
4a. Write about any area you are still being agnostic in?

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions- Step Four pgs.46:2-end 48:2

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