Finally, it is important to remember that resistance to the long-term nature of recovery may just be a disagreement about words rather than substance. The word disciple is a long-term word. Twelve Step programs are exactly the same kind of thing. Some things are necessarily lifetime things. Discipleship is one of them.
Recovery is another.
The purpose of a daily inventory is to build the practice of self-examination, confession and making amends into the basic structure of our lives. By now we have worked the program enough to recognize that we easily retreat into self-deception. We forget easily. A daily inventory helps us remember who we are. If we are obsessing about things again, comparing ourselves to others, trying to control things we cannot control, then this Step offers us a kind of early warning system that the process is not on track and that we need to be diligent about the spiritual disciplines that have already helped us so much.