12-Stepsⁱ of A.A.ⁱ A.A members first admitted they are powerless over alcohol and that their lives has become unmanageable. A.A members come to believe that a Power greater than themselves could restore them to sanity. A.A members have make a decision to turn their will and lives over to the care of "God" as best as they understand Him. A.A members make a searching and fearless moral inventory of themselves. They have admitted to God, to themselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs doings. A.A members were entirely ready to have God remove all the defects of character. Humbly asked Him to remove their shortcomings. A.A members make a list of all persons they have harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. A.A members make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure themselves or others. A.A members continued to take personal inventory and when wrong promptly admitted it. A.A members Sought through prayer and meditation to improve conscious contact with God, as they understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for them and the power to carry that out. A.A members now Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these 12 steps, tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all their affairs.