On page 40 of "Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction, The New Revolutionary Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous" by Jack Trimpey, 1996, there is a list of 17 useful understandings that a person who has just made a commitment to permanent abstinence (a Big Plan) can read and reread and incorporate into this revolutionary (by today's standards) approach to recovery.
One of those 17 useful understandings is the this: