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Old 08-05-2008, 02:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
lizw
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As another poster has indicated, the promises follow step nine in the BB. When the book says '...if we are painstaking about this phase of our development we will be amazed before we are half way though...'
The phase of our development it is making ref to is making amends.
This is one of my personal irks since the promises get shopped around a lot in meetings, but they are not used in the context the book uses them. It's a bit like false advertising.

Sure, you will be amazed before you are half way through, but that means, half way through your amends list. Not half way through your first year/2nd/3rd or 4th year when you haven't worked the steps...
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