Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners & Refresher Class Sessions Prepared by Mike & Kathy L, West Orange, NJ Revision 1.0 May 5, For additional copies visit http://back.to/aabasics on the Internet ____________________________________________________________________________________ 28 broke. Taking commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact- facing process. It is an effort to discover the truth about the stock- in-trade. One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid of them promptly and without regret. If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values.” (page 64, ¶ So, we are going to conduct the equivalent of a commercial inventory on our lives. We are going to discover what blocks us off from God. Next, the book tells us exactly what we have to do to conduct a Fourth Step inventory: “We did exactly the same thing with our lives. We took stock honestly. First, we searched out the flaws in our makeup which caused our failure. Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.” (page 64, ¶ We are going to take stock of three manifestations of self-will: our
