Hanging onto such reservations can kill you, if you are alcoholic. Stay off the sauce, put your reservations on the back burner. and give yourself a chance to experience sobriety. If the results are not to your liking, you can always try something else and be a better person for having given yourself the chance. Chapter 2, There is a Solution. Just remember, keep on breathing, and don't take a drink of alcohol between breaths.
Physical sobriety is that simple.
But, seeing the promises of sobriety materialize in your life, and discovering true peace within yourself call for taking the steps. Helpful guidance is available from us for taking all the steps. Steps 10 through 12 should each be taken from the first day we enter AA and every day thereafter until we join the Big Sky Group. Step 10 helps us to stop exercising our defects of character, thus preventing actions for which we might then have to make further amends. Step 11 guides us toward habitual prayer for God's direction.