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and your long experience as a drinker has or should have made
you humble and alert to the cries of anguish coming from hearts of
alcoholics such as yourself from all over.

Always keep that one day in mind when you entered A.A. for the
first time especially because you’re powerful and then only by your
willingness to change your life and, under my watchful eye, that
compensation will come to you.

FIFTEEN THINGS AN ALCOHOLIC
SHOULD KEEP IN MIND

Remember:

«The first drink is the one that leads to disaster.»

(We suggest that you meditate over each one of these points and don’t
feel the need to rush through them.)

I. Continuously grown in the acceptance of the fact that should choose
between unhappy drunkenness and depriving yourself of JUST ONE
DRINK.
2. Be eagerly grateful for having the good fortune of finding out that
you have-an incurable disease before it was too late.
3. I hope that for a while, and it may be long while, you suddenly
experience the following as an unavoidable natural thing:
a) the craving for alcohol,
b) the almost irresistible urge to take a drink one day
c) the burning desire to feel the relaxing effects once more that
time configured to one or two drinks
4. Keep in mind; it’s when you don’t want to drink that you must store
strength of resisting for when you get the urge to do so.
5. Compile and rehearse a daily plan of thinking and acting, by which
you will live this day without drinking alcohol, not forgetting what
can throw you off, nor how hard the urge to drink can hit you.
6. Not even for a split second are you allowed to think things such
as: «What a pity (or injustice) that I can’t drink like the so-called
normal people.»

7. Do not allow yourself to think or talk about any real or imaginary
pleasures that alcohol may have ever presented you.