<Ol> <Li> We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable . </Li> <Li> Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity . </Li> <Li> Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him . </Li> <Li> Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves . </Li> <Li> Admitted to God , to ourselves , and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs . </Li> <Li> Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character . </Li> <Li> Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings . </Li> <Li> Made a list of all persons we had harmed , and became willing to make amends to them all . </Li> <Li> Made direct amends to such people wherever possible , except when to do so would injure them or others . </Li> <Li> Continued to take personal inventory , and when we were wrong , promptly admitted it . </Li> <Li> Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him , praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out . </Li> <Li> Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps , we tried to carry this message to alcoholics , and to practice these principles in all our affairs . </Li> </Ol>
what is step 1 of the 12 step program
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable .