From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... promptly.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
2.
... promptly admit
it -- to ourselves always, and ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can
promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to
them also, when the admission would be helpful.
3.
... promptly admitted
it."
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
4.
... promptly admitted
it.
BB p.59,
How It Works
5.
... promptly and
without regret.
BB p.64,
How It Works
One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid of them promptly and without regret.
6.
... promptly eliminated
at the next election if ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
7.
... promptly proves
by talking freely and easily, ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This the sponsor promptly
proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, about his own defects, past and present.
8.
... promptly took
shape at New York, to ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.
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