"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.:
Can we stay sober and keep emotional balance under all conditions? Self-Searching becomes a regular habit. Admit, accept, and patiently correct defects. Emotional hangover. When past is settled with, present challenges can be met. Varieties of inventory. Anger, resentments, jealo8uy, envy, sile-pity, hurt pride - all led to the bottle. Self-restraint first objective. Insurance against "big-shot-ism." Let's look at credits as well as debits. Examiniation of motives.
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.