If you have ever pedalled on a bike against the wind, you can quickly recall the exhaustion and frustration of the never-ending grind of working against the wind. With every kilometre of distance covered, the wind is in your ears and pushing against your chest. Your shirt flaps in the breeze, and you come to resent the wind and the energy it sucks from you with every pedal stroke. It is unrelenting and merciless. And you are keenly aware of it. You hear it, you feel it, you work against it.
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The 5th Step Process – Shining Lights on the Problems
This is an essay based on my experience with the Step that immediately follows the Inventory Step.
Inventories – Do Them, and Learn to Love to Do Them
I love inventories. Really. They are great. They are the best investment that I make in time and energy. I get more returns from inventories than anything else I do in the program, or indeed in life.
Annual Inventories and The Exact Nature of My Defects
I have written about precision in perception in a 5th Step or Confessional and Conversation process. But in my experience, there is more precision in inventories after the first one or two.