How do you work the Maintenance Steps specifically on a daily basis?
I’ve been using the Rapid Step 10 app and then email it to my sponsor every night. Prayer is in there and also asks you who you’re goi.ng to help after. I really see a difference in my program since using this. I don’t do it perfectly. Sometimes I miss a day.
– Shari
The Maintenance Steps were difficult to practice at the beginning, but they have now become second nature. When I have sponsees, I am reminded how overwhelming it is to work them on a daily basis. I must say that there is definitely room for improvement of my daily meditation. I yearn to be able to get better at that. It’s perfectly imperfect.
– Val B
I’ve learned to recognize when I have been wrong or acted in a rude manner and try to make amends as quickly as I can. I have a chat (we aren’t formal, 🙂 ) with my HP several times a day to keep in touch and ask for guidance. I do service at the meeting level, as an intergroup rep, member of 2 committees, and I am a sponsor. This keeps me living in Steps 10, 11 and 12
– Denise M
I do Step Tens, when the need arises.
Step Eleven, for me, is the nightly review. Those questions are on the Step ELEVEN segment of the Big Book. People assume it’s part of Step Ten. The reason the nightly part appears before the morning part is because Step Ten occurs throughout the day.
I’ve yet to have, official, success with a protégé. However, I’m learning about the first conversation in Step Twelve sponsorship.
– Desmond from Northern Ireland
Important for me here to know that the term “maintenance Steps’ actually refers to Steps 10 & 11…and possibly even Step 12?
But for our purposes in my group it’s good to note the Founders didn’t refer to 10 11 & 12 this way…
Instead, if you look at 84 it suggests that these Steps are indeed GROWTH Steps…
Ie. Just as we are about to launch into 10 & 11 it says “Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness”…
And Step 12…’intensive work with other (sic) comp eaters’
– Anonymous
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