A friend of mine took to pen and recreated the 12 steps, from an asset based perspective. For 2014, this is how I will focus on my recovery…and even then, I’m spending three months not focusing on recovery, or addiction…but on my own gifts, talents, passions, creative juices… It’s a study in a change of focus. For when we look at problems, we find problems. When we look at needs, we find needs. But when we look at abundance, we see plenty.
• Step 1 – We admitted we were powerless over our addiction – our addiction was muting our own uniqe gifts and talents
• Step 2 – Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves needed us to fully use our gifts and talents in this world
• Step 3 – Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
• Step 4 – Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves and all we have to offer
• Step 5 – Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being all of the gifts, talents, and dreams that we have forgetten
• Step 6 – Were entirely ready to have God begin to share all of our gifts and talents with others
• Step 7 – Humbly asked God to constantly encourage us in our dreams
• Step 8 – Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
• Step 9 – Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
• Step 10 – Continued to take personal inventory of our gifts and talents and when we were holding back promptly admitted it
• Step 11 – Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out
• Step 12 – Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
The Magical Storybook of Professor Peacock 
This is the richest piece, thank you Todd. Love Marc’s gift of Asset Based 12-steps. Blessings on your journey
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