STEP EIGHT

 "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."

Step Eight was not as hard as it seemed.  I was not on the 9th Step of making the amends yet. I was only making a list of names. I got my names and institutions from my written fourth step and also from things that I though of that had no connections to my fourth steps. In this step, I was setting the pace of getting right with my fellow man and all my relationships. 

Your Friend in Recovery,
 Carol R.

 FOOD FOR THOUGHTS

What Creates Clutter?

Several technical flaws that can prevent one from becoming organized, but my perception is that at a basic level, there is really just one flaw: a failure to systematize common decisions. Whenever I leave things lying out, it's because I'm not ready to decide what to do with them yet. So the process of organizing really comes down to having a system for automating decisions about where everything goes. Disorganized people have few or no systems, so they must make every decision on a case by case basis. Eventually this becomes overwhelming, and clutter begins to pile up. Organized people will make far fewer decisions in the long run. It takes far more time to be disorganized than it does to be organized because disorganized people lose so much time to inefficiency.

 

HOMEWORK

  1.  Read in our book on chapter on Step 8

  2. Read from the Big Book Bunch >  Step 8

  3. Make a list of names of people and institution that have been harmed in a 5 column ledger (See Below). List the harm done and assess which ones can be amended now, later or never.

Person/Institution Harm done Now Later Never
My sister Smoked in  her house X    
My boss Smoked instead of doing work I was hired to do.   X  
The guy down the road Took his cigarettes.     X

 
 

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