Step 1: Admitting I am powerless over alcoholStep 1: Admitting I am powerless over alcohol
Step 2: Believe that a Power greater than myself can restore me to sanityStep 2: Believe that a Power greater than myself can restore me to sanity
Step 3: Make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand HimStep 3: Make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand Him
Step 4: Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of myselfStep 4: Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself
Step 5: Admit to God, to myself, and to others the exact nature of my wrongsStep 5: Admit to God, to myself, and to others the exact nature of my wrongs
Step 6: Be ready to have God remove all defects of characterStep 6: Be ready to have God remove all defects of character
Step 7: Ask Him to remove my shortcomingsStep 7: Ask Him to remove my shortcomings
Step 8: Apologize and right wrongsStep 8: Apologize and right wrongs
Step 9: Make direct amends to people I harmed wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or othersStep 9: Make direct amends to people I harmed wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
Step 10: Continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong promptly admit itStep 10: Continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong promptly admit it
Step 11: Seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God as I understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry that outStep 11: Seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God as I understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry that out
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I try to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all my affairsStep 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I try to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all my affairs