If you want what we have, and are willing to go to any lengths to get it... (BB p58) OR
"I don't want what I've got, and I'm willing to go to any lengths to flush it..." (Ref: BB p52)

Why My Home Group is the Best in the World! Meeting Schedules, etc...

Share your Group's History Here!

e.g. "Every member gets a Sponsor or we nag 'em to sobriety anyway..."

And the way they were answered...

'Suggestions' My Sponsor gave me as a newbie...

"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol— that our lives had become unmanageable."

"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him."

"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."

"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."

"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."

"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."

"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."

"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on AA Unity.

For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority— a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.

Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.

Each group has but one primary purpose— to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Provides information about A.A. to those who have contact with alcoholics through their profession. This group includes health care professionals, educators, members of the clergy, lawyers, social workers, union leaders, and industrial managers, government officials, as well as those working in the field of alcoholism. Information is provided about where we are, what we are, what we can do, and what we cannot do.

Coordinates the work of individual members and groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to alcoholics in correctional facilities.

Provides accurate A.A. information to the public when requested. P.l. committees visit schools, businesses and community meetings for this purpose. They also serve as resources for our friends in the local media, emphasizing our Traditions of anonymity, singleness of purpose and nonaffiliation, as well as offering A.A. public service announcements to radio and television stations.

When one or more members of a group have special needs (such as the need for an American Sign Language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility, or have an illness which prevents them from getting to the meeting room), A.A. members from that group will attempt to see that those needs are met. The members of a Special Needs Committee explore, develop and offer resources to make the A.A. message and participation in our program available to everyone who reaches out. for it.

Coordinates the work of individual members and groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to alcoholics in hospitals, alcoholism treatment and rehabilitation centers.

Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board.

The Box 111 Connection App!

While the basic overview of the editor is given in "Help" at Posting Basics, here's where we go above and beyond... and explain some of the special features we've built into Box 111's version of the editor.

I think this is broken. Its attitude seems bad, and it won't do what I think its should