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Day 3

Admit it.

"We have more ability than willpower, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine things are impossible." La Rochefougauld

We felt a great deal of relief and very likely, a feeling of pride, when we made amends to those persons we had harmed in the past. Step Nine gave us some experience in how to make amends, and we can continue to call upon that experience today to promptly admit our wrongs.

No one we know enjoys admitting that he or she goofed. This leads to a tendency to procrastinate when it comes to admitting our mistakes. But we will learn, in time, that the term "promptly" has great merit. Cleaning up today's wreckage today means we don't have to go through needless agaonzing or loss of sleep trying to summon up courage to do so.

As a matter of fact, it usually seems much more difficult when we think about it than when we do it. We always make mountains out of molehills in our minds when we worry about how our admission of wrongness will be percieved by others. We need to remind ourselves that all these steps were created as tools, and that our program is one of enlightened self-interest. When we're O.K. with ourselves we're generally O.K. with others too.

Today's Step: When I am wrong, I promptly admit it.

Step by Step. Muriel ZInk