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Now just how do I do that – hmmmm?
Hey! A Dozen Steps is part of the Science and Health Channel at b5media, in case ya’ didn’t know :-) and today is the first Thurs. of the new month so we always have a theme day today. They decided we should all post an entry about a Top Ten list of some type. I’ve got A Dozen Steps and I can’t/won’t eliminate a single one of them for a recovering alky because we work a Twelve Step program not a Ten Step program! So there :P
Like, which of the Twelve would you not include to make it Ten? Yeah – I know what most beginners would want to eliminate! #’s 4 and 9, right? You know – dam* that inventory cr*p and forget about making amends. After all, they did it to me, right?
I did give some consideration to a Top Ten list of excuses we use to “pour me a drink” but came up with way too many over a thousand that I couldn’t boil it down to just Ten.
I thought about a list of the Top Ten things I could blame for my drinking but I ran into the same difficulty as I had with the Top Ten excuses!
And then – a brainstorm! Kiddin’… I thought perhaps you’d be interested in the Top Ten posts you folks read here at A Dozen Steps. Purely self-centered in the extreme lol.
#1 – Bathroom Humor
#3 – A Matter Of Choice?
#4 – Twelve Qualities Of Sponsorship
#5 – Before The Lingo Had Evolved
#6 – Ninth Step – A Thought Or Two…
#7 – There But…
#8 – Thy Will, Not Mine, Be Done
#9 – Herbert Spencer Didn’t Write It?
#10 – The Evolution Of The Twelve Steps Of AA
The funny thing is that if you take a look at the Top Ten phrases folks search for to wind up at A Dozen Steps they correlate rather well with the Top Ten list of most viewed entries;
functional alcoholic
10th step
recovery humor
alcoholics anonymous by the grace of god there go i
as bill sees it
aa 5th step
aa grapevine 12 step books
the official 12 steps of aa
what is a functional alcoholic
third step in recovery christian
Okay. Now I can move on to the Top Ten rationalizations and then to the Top Ten justifications… Nope, same problem.
Very Cool ~ especially #1 :)
Right on Mark!!
Yep the 6 from the Oxford group, I think
More seriously though …
If I just HAD to make the steps into ten, I’d probably combine 6&7 and then combine 8&9.
As you most certainly know, they steps began as only 6.
Hi Hsien!
Yep! That it was! Glad it worked for ya’ :-)
This post made me smile. I hope that was the intended effect! :)
2080 days ago
[...] At A Dozen Steps, Mark W. is overwhelmed with visions of top-ten lists when he lives in more of a base 12 world, but he has mostly settled on one: The Top-Ten Posts at A Dozen Steps. If you read on through the post, you might just find another. [...]