10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

This step has absolutely no connection with step #4. Note, in step #4, it calls for a searching and fearless Moral  inventory. This step calls for a personal  inventory. This step is our daily check on ourselves.

At night, after you are in bed and the day is over; review your day and pray.

Think about your day, what you have done, who you were with and what has transpired. If you find something that you are not proud of apologize. Do not permit these things to go unattended.

It is not the so-called "big" things which seriously affect the alcoholic in their new life, but the "little" things.

Diligent practice of the 10th every day reinforces that character defects quickly became damned obvious on a daily basis.

Admitting a wrong is difficult

We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime.

Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone.

And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally.

That is the miracle of it.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.

To some extent we have become God-conscious. We have begun to develop this vital sixth sense.