1. We admitted that we were powerless over whatever it was and that our lives had become confused.

2. We came to believe that a power greater than someone could restore us to something or other.

3. We made a decision to do something and we will as soon as we remember.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, but we can’t recall the exact results.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to someone whom we can’t recall the exact nature of whatever this is all about.

6. We were entirely ready for something or other.

7. We humbly asked God to help us recall whatever it is we are supposed to do.

8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, but we lost the list or someone stole it.

9. We will make direct amends to those people if we ever find the list.

10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we remembered, we made another list which has also disappeared.

11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our relationship with someone or other and to try to recall why we were doing all of this.

12. Having had a confusing time of it, we were going to give up, but we forgot what it was we were going to give up, so we started back at Step One.