Twelve Steps of Underearners Anonymous
1. We admitted we were powerless over underearning — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive underearners, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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The UA Promises
We learn in Twelve Step recovery that personal understanding of the events from our past avails us nothing. In other words, the causes we have come to believe or accept for our underearning are not going to help us to change our lives.
As we work with others in the program we learn to release our past and to focus on today and on the future – on our action steps and on our vision.
We begin to accept ourselves with compassion and to believe that we deserve greater fulfillment and a more prosperous life.
As a result of working all aspects of the program an expanded vision of our lives begins to emerge.
We begin to know ourselves better and think about using our true talents.
We allow ourselves to want more out of life and we become willing to take the necessary action to achieve it.
As a result we are also able to give more to others and to our communities, contributing to something larger than ourselves.
It has been said that we cannot solve our problems with the same consciousness that created them.
Through working the Steps, using the Tools, and giving Service, a shift in our consciousness occurs.
We experience more gratitude, greater peace of mind and acceptance of ourselves.
It is as if we have awakened from a deep sleep to a new life more fully realized and expressed.