Of course being sober is the first thing we do which means not drunk recovery or recovered means to return to health from sickness it's about recovery not sobriety it's like the other fellowship I'm clean clean means free from dirt has nothing to do with recovery what helps me is pages 8687 and 88 every morning at night one paragraph on the top of page 86 helps me to do a daily inventory at night the book Alcoholics Anonymous helps instructions have been written down for the past 76 years I just tend to keep it simple i complicated my entire life I've learned that even though I was addicted to alcohol and drugs my thinking was the problem and just not drinking didn't solve a thing so I did what a lot of other people have been doing for a number of years stick to the basics