Steps Willing Change By admin Posted on April 1, 2019 3 min read 2 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr I rely on the Principle of Step Six, “willingness,” one day at a time. I am willing to: take Step One (and continue to take Step One daily) work with a sponsor: get honest and drop the excuses and justifications that had taken over my life discuss my trigger foods and trigger behaviors, make a food plan, pray about it, write it, and commit it to another human being find a Higher Power and talk to this Higher Power about everything step out of the vicious circle of addiction and choose HP every time look at where I was wrong and share it with Higher Power and another human being examine my character defects and know that HP is working on those things in me give all of me to HP, good and bad, the character defects I already know about and the onion layers of defects HP is continuing to show me rely on Higher Power’s timing and not force my own continue to talk to Higher Power, even when I don’t want to or when excuses creep back in adjust my food plan when I become aware of new trigger foods or behaviors continue working with my sponsor and telling that person even the little things continue working the Steps daily: they only work if I work them I am willing to look at all of me, not just my food. I’m realizing that if I use this willingness, not just for a diet but for my whole life, it can change my life. Just for today, I choose to be willing! — Edited and reprinted from OA Today newsletter, St. Louis Bi-State Intergroup, June 2017
