I'm looking forward to taking these steps to ultimately better myself and my marriage

What I hope to happen is find an answer as to why I did what I did and to help fix myself. It was hard for me to admit that I had a problem but i want to work towards a better me. I want to take the next steps.

Honestly I'm afraid of temptation but becuase of the way it made me feel. I have an addiction problem and I want to break the cycle.

I know that it will be a challenge to work into my routine but I have a support system that will encouarge me to be better an stronger. I hope it works. I have already purchased the course books so I'm ready to learn why I was doing what I was doing and be able to move on to a better me.

YES 100% I'm ready to free myself from the guilt and pain that it was causing me. It felt good in the moment but horrible after. I'm ready to be honest. Why now, beacuse my wife found a video of me masturbating on my phone a confronted me about it. I was to weak and felt embarresed to tell her what was happening behind her back. It happened for two years and I'm not proud of it. I'm ready to face my problem head on and find why I was doing what I was doing and to break the cycle.

I will be more honest with myself and to my wife. I struggle with self control so I want to to learn how to be better.

I'm willing to leave my addiction of masturrbating where I'm not supposed to behind and equip myslef with the tools to not want to go back. It was a sad and disgusting life. I want to be better for myslef, form my wife, for marriage, and for God.

Everything is different in my life.

I am looking forward to working the 12 Steps because I believe working them has the power to help me change. I know
working them will take some effort on my part and be difficult at times, but I know it takes effort and difficulty to make
a mighty change in my heart.

I hope I am willing to put in the effort, be consistent, and be humble enough to allow the process to change me, little by
little. I hope I will slowly become a new person as I leave my addiction behind and focus more on those things in life
that are truly important to me, namely my relationship with God and my relationship with my family.

I am afraid I might fall back into old ways and relapse, or worse, begin another cycle of ongoing sobriety and relapse.

I know I need to work on something regular and consistent to keep me focused on my goals, so I think having a
structured program by which I do some step work daily will help me build strength and create a change of heart in me.

I believe I am finally ready to really let go of my addiction and any associated thought patterns, actions, habits, and
beliefs. I believe I am ready to turn my will completely over to God. The time for me is now because there is no better
time than now, especially since I have been dealing with this for maybe 35 years, and also because I feel God has been
preparing my heart and mind to make this change. I see little things in my life that I believe pointed me in this direction
and prepared me to make the commitment to progress in this area.

With about two months of sobriety under my belt already, I have begun to feel and understand the power of connection
as an antidote to addiction. Having a sponsor, making daily calls and going to meetings has been the biggest blessing
in my life and the peace I feel has had an affect on me. I have come to really believe I can change, and this is
something I'm not sure has ever happened before. I have genuine hope and that hope is compelling me to act.

I don't know what all I will be required to leave behind so I can be healed of my addiction and experience a mighty
change of heart, but I feel I am ready to leave behind anything that may be required of me. I know I must leave behind
all the thoughts, actions, habits, and beliefs associated with the practice of my addiction, and I am completely willing to
do that. I also am seeking to know what else God would have me surrender along this path, and I genuinely want to be
willing to do this.

I think so. This will be my 2nd time to go through the 12 steps. I was hoping that after doing it once, I would just be on the 10-12 cycle for the rest of my life. But as I relapsed after over two years of sobriety, I need to start from scratch.

That I find the same healing that I found the first time.

That it won't work.

I think it will help me to get back into active recovery.

Yes. But this question is a little frustrating for me as I've been there before.

I hope my effort will not be different, but the same as when I found sobriety and recovery for over 2 years.

Whatever it takes.

I am looking forward to working the 12 Steps because I believe working them has the power to help me change. I know working them will take some effort on my part and be difficult at times, but I know it takes effort and difficulty to make a mighty change in my heart.

I hope I am willing to put in the effort, be consistent, and be humble enough to allow the process to change me, little by little. I hope I will slowly become a new person as I leave my addiction behind and focus more on those things in life that are truly important to me, namely my relationship with God and my relationship with my family.

I am afraid I might fall back into old ways and relapse, or worse, begin another cycle of ongoing sobriety and relapse.

I know I need to work on something regular and consistent to keep me focused on my goals, so I think having a structured program by which I do some step work daily will help me build strength and create a change of heart in me.

I believe I am finally ready to really let go of my addiction and any associated thought patterns, actions, habits, and beliefs. I believe I am ready to turn my will completely over to God. The time for me is now because there is no better time than now, especially since I have been dealing with this for maybe 35 years, and also because I feel God has been preparing my heart and mind to make this change. I see little things in my life that I believe pointed me in this direction and prepared me to make the commitment to progress in this area.

With about two months of sobriety under my belt already, I have begun to feel and understand the power of connection as an antidote to addiction. Having a sponsor, making daily calls and going to meetings has been the biggest blessing in my life and the peace I feel has had an affect on me. I have come to really believe I can change, and this is something I'm not sure has ever happened before. I have genuine hope and that hope is compelling me to act.

I don't know what all I will be required to leave behind so I can be healed of my addiction and experience a mighty change of heart, but I feel I am ready to leave behind anything that may be required of me. I know I must leave behind all the thoughts, actions, habits, and beliefs associated with the practice of my addiction, and I am completely willing to do that. I also am seeking to know what else God would have me surrender along this path, and I genuinely want to be willing to do this.

Yes, I am looking forward to this. I started on this course before, almost ten years ago. I found recovery and peace. I saw a change in me and the greatest spiritual growth I have experienced in my life. My relationship with my God, my wife, my children, those around me, and myself was improved. I saw more clearly and better understood my purpose. A bad habit that I had just wanted to stop for most of my life became a pathway to change and spiritual growth. I stalled out, got side tracked, and did not continue on that spiritual journey. I recognize better now that half measures are not enough.

I hope to continue on that path. I have come to see the stepwork as a way to access, or enable the atonement of Jesus Christ in my life. I want to continue down that path.

I fear that I will stall out again. I fear that I do not have enough stamina or persistence to continue. I worry that I will let my wife down.

I have never been good about consistency with anything. Procrastination and avoidance are major character defects I have fought since childhood. However, consistency is what I need. I need to organize my life so that I do attend to dailies. Though I have been reluctant to use this course because I like to be in control of what I doing, and I am a little reluctant to have this all stored onlin. I don't want this information accessable to others without my knowledge/consent. I do trust the professionalism of the SAL organization, and perhaps that is a minor concern compared to my need to continue down this path. I do not think I could have come as far as I have without SAL to begin with, so I am trusting. Also, I am looking forward to trying this format. Now that I have decided to move forward, I think it may be exactly what I need to overcome my avoidance and procrastination.

Yes, I am. I feel blessed to have seen the impact on my life before. I know what I need.

I know that I cannot stop. I cannot coast, at least not for long. I know that it works when I work it. I just need to work it, because it won't if I don't.

Anything I need to. I am ready to let God tell me what I need to do next.

I’m honestly a bit conflicted. I’ve been wanting to work the steps every all the away through but I’ve struggled to do so in the past.

I hope for sobriety

I’m afraid to fail or that it will be hard

I feel like it will work, but I worry about the consistency I will give to it

No, I’ve prove that I’m not ready I guess. My decisions make that clear. But I am ready to try again

I am leaving room for actually working the steps this time

I am committing to do the steps and do it every day. Every day. My new normal is that I out the effort in.

With some years behind me attending meetings, working programs, etc., I've been having the impression again to work the steps a third time in a structured manner. I'm hoping to dig deeper, get more understanding, rid myself of more resentments, and continue to try to have a dire desire to surrender my will and change my behaviors. I still lack in empathy, full acknowledgment and understanding in the harm it does to me and others, and I don't understand why that is.

I hope I can get some real sobriety (more than months at a time - I hope to get past a year) so that maybe with a good amount of sobriety behind me I can understand more clearly what I described above - I want to really understand and believe that viewing pornography is wrong and destructive. I don't want to say it because the Church says so, because others say so, I want to have that conviction and belief myself (as I do already with any other harmful thing).

I'm afraid that I am so sick, or simply do not have the capacity to have lasting sobriety or recovery; that something happens within me after time that I truly have no control over (like a cancer), and there's nothing I can do about it. Whatever this "cancer" is, I will become resentful, critical, mean, want to prove and argue my case, blame, etc. despite doing everything I can to get out of it (daily calls, recovery meetings, prayer, surrender, church worship, etc.)

It's a hard pill to swallow, but I have no other choice. I know I have to, but I don't always do it.

I'm not. I have to be honest. I wish I were completely. I want to want to. But, there's something inside of me that can't. Gray areas prevent me. But, I have to try to do recovery actions and behaviors. I can't not try.

I'm starting this curriculum from no pressure at all from anyone else. I'm doing this because I want to.

I'm leaving behind pride, worry, blame, self.

Yes, I want to work as hard as I can and change!

I hope that I become a better husband to my wife. I want to be free of my addictions.

I am afraid I might end up getting triggered at times. I am not afraid that I will relapse as I have a team of people helping me.

I think it will work for me as I am willing to work for change. I haven't been good and daily working and I think that will be good.

I am ready to let go of my addiction. I sometimes am enticed by the past behaviors and attitudes as that is how I dealt with stress and negative feelings. But, I can see that this is no way to live and also I have destroyed my spouse in the process and I do not want to hurt her anymore.

I am willing to be honest and transparent. I know that I hide and run and I don't want to do that anymore. I want to have peace and be free and surrender all things to God.

My pride. My fear. My laziness. My desire for an easy life. My weaknesses. My justification. My excuses. My willingness to bend to be acceptable to anyone. My ingrained habits of looking for lust. My tendancy to be agreeable no matter what.

Yes I am. I have worked them before but I have a better understanding of its importance.

I live in recovery daily

It does not work again.

I hope and pray they do work. I hope to have conscious contact with God daily.

Yes I am.

I will work the 12 step program and let it work me.

Pride, selfishness, and longing for comfortability

Yes i am looking foreward to finally working the 12 steps, although I am nervous because i have a hard time following through with things. I've started before and stopped and really struggled to keep the momentum.

I hope to learn more about myself, what drives my addiction and why I cant seem to get lengthy sobriety. I also hope to gain a closer relationship with my Savior. I also hope to find strength to surrender my will to God in those desperate moments.

I may become complacent and stop doing the work. Or, I may continue to relapse and loose confidence in myself.

im a person who needs routine. I feel like a curriculum will give me a good routine. I'm not very apprehensive about weather or not it will work for me. I am the one who is responsible for making sure it works by continuing to work it.

I've answered that question many times only to prove myself not willing to let go yet. I can only hope that i am at a point in my life where I'm ready to let go of my addiction. I feel like I am. I hope that I am. I've tried everything else. I just cant keep going on like i have been for years. I feel like its either do it now, or, loose everything.

Im going to follow a curriculum which Im hoping will help keep my focused more on my recovery throughout the week. Im hoping i can commit to doing something each day to stay involved.

The idea that I can control my addiction instead of it controlling me. I hope I can leave behind old attitudes of complacency and pretending that I can live without boundaries. I would like to leave behind the need to distract from feeling hard emotions. I think my new normal will include dealing with real pain in a mature and responsible way so that I can experience and appreciate real happiness and joy.

Yes. I want strict

A better idea of who I am

Not finish

Something new so why not

It’s time

This program if I can figure it out

Everything

Sure I have worked it before but looking for more structure.

My goal is to stay in recovery. Be able to express my emotions.

Losing my family and marriage.

Get me in a good routine

Yea. There is power in vocalizing that

More structure with this program

Anything is what I want to say and believe.

Yes i am looking forward to working the steps again

Better and deeper understanding of how I can work the steps

I have attended 4 meetings a week for two years and my work schedule changed so I am traveling more and miss meetings more that I would like. This online course will give me opportunity to make up for meetings missed as I work the program when I'm out of town as well as home

Yes. I have worked on giving my will over and need to continue that the rest of my life. Now and later

Yes, I truly am. It's been a good 5 1/2 years since I have and every time I work them I get a great deal out of them.
Especially with a sponsor or another person that has been through them. I learn something new every time and the
fundamentals and outline of the 12 starts are the best Life 101 program out there.

That I improve my relationship with my higher power. Improve my relationship with myself and increase my assets and
let go of more defects and liabilities. And finally improve my relationships with others and start giving back and
sponsoring others and being of service in any way possible.

I'm not really afraid of what might happen. I have enough experience to know what to expect to an extent. Some of the
truths uncovered can be uncomfortable at times but it's all worth working through and growing in my recovery.

Working the steps daily or any recovery activity can work because I am focused on the solution and can connect me to
my Higher Power and to others in the program.

Absolutely. It's pretty much now or never once again and I want a good life and to be able to show up as my best self
with my loved ones and fellow human beings.

All I can do is strive for honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness. I will try my best to stay consistent and fully
commit each and every day to making progress in my recovery.

I am truly willing to leave anything and everything behind that blocks me from growth in my recovery and the 3 big
relationships. God, Myself, Others

Yes. I need to make a change. Nothing has worked permanently yet.

That my weakness can become my strength.

My wife wanting to divorce me as I am 100% honest with myself and her.

After reading the white book on my own for a month I noticed that days when I journal and read i had less lustfull thoughts.

Yes. My wife took ghe kids to her sister's for a weekend and I realized how serious this matter is.

I will rededicate myself to the step by attendingeeting every week.

Behaviors. Lifestyle. The painting of the person i want people to see.

Yes, I truly am. It's been a good 5 1/2 years since I have and every time I work them I get a great deal out of them. Especially with a sponsor or another person that has been through them. I learn something new every time and the fundamentals and outline of the 12 starts are the best Life 101 program out there.

That I improve my relationship with my higher power. Improve my relationship with myself and increase my assets and let go of more defects and liabilities. And finally improve my relationships with others and start giving back and sponsoring others and being of service in any way possible.

I'm not really afraid of what might happen. I have enough experience to know what to expect to an extent. Some of the truths uncovered can be uncomfortable at times but it's all worth working through and growing in my recovery.

Working the steps daily or any recovery activity can work because I am focused on the solution and can connect me to my Higher Power and to others in the program.

Absolutely. It's pretty much now or never once again and I want a good life and to be able to show up as my best self with my loved ones and fellow human beings.

All I can do is strive for honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness. I will try my best to stay consistent and fully commit each and every day to making progress in my recovery.

I am truly willing to leave anything and everything behind that blocks me from growth in my recovery and the 3 big relationships.

I am looking forward to working the steps. I think that the focus on the fundamentals will help me change my attitude. I need to identify the thought patterns that lead me to denial and justification. I need to recognize how powerless I am. I need to stay humble and I know that if I lose sight of humility, then I'm likely to go back to acting out behaviors and justification. I am nervous about connection because it's outside of my comfort zone. But I know it's super important for recovery.

I hope that I will remember why I am doing this. I hope that I will remember that I need to be accountable to myself and to God. And I want to remember how my actions have hurt my spouse. I hope that as I work the steps, my spouse will recognize my changes. As I say that, I realize that I cannot control what she thinks about me or recognizes in me. But I hope that she can. And I hope that I can find connection with other brothers in group.

I am generally afraid of relapse. While I am sober right now and don't feel like I'm anywhere near relapse, I understand that it is a reality that many men face. I am afraid that I will slip into patterns of pride and self-centeredness which lead me to justification and resentment. That is why I think working the steps on a daily basis will keep me humble and grounded and focused on what I hope to accomplish.

I feel like working the steps on a daily basis. Will keep me constantly reminded of my goals in recovery. I know that a huge part of working the steps and recovery is a change of attitude or humility. And there is nothing more humble than making a decision each day to study addiction and recovery and writing about it.

I am ready to let go of my addiction. I have been sober for almost 8 months, and I'm grateful for my higher power that has helped me make it through these last 8 months.

I have already disclosed everything to my spouse and church leaders. I have finished my church discipline. I have been sober for almost 8 months. My mental health has been stable since I started taking new medicine. I am more humble than I have been in a long time, and I'm willing to accept these learnings and these experiences of looking inside myself and my heart.

I'm willing to leave behind the perception that I am really smart and know the answer to a lot of things. I want to practice humility.

I am. I continue to fail trying to work the steps on my own. I am becoming more accepting of the fact that I need a structured program of recovery. I have not been able to be honest, accountable, and humble without using the checks and balances of a structured program. I am looking forward to working the steps daily. I know I must do this. No one is coming to save me. I need to do the work and hope for the best.

I hope to grow in awareness, mindfulness, balance, resilience, tolerance, empathy, and discipline. I hope to be less affected by my worries and fears and better focus on daily step work.

I am afraid to return to my addiction cycles. I am afraid of not using each day to face my mortal life with honesty, accountablility, and humility. I am afraid of not working on righting the wrongs I have done to God and others. I am afraid of not choosing the good. I am afraid of not returning with increase what I have been given.

I am learning that I do not change or grow all at once. I am becoming more aware of how much I have tried to cheat the system, to go through the motions, to rely on someone else to save me. I have learned that I will only grow if I choose to be fully committed each day to my work of recovery. I can only do what I can in my moments of each day. Every day is choice to recover or not. Just for today I choose to work my recovery.

Yes, just for today, just for this moment. I am willing right now to let go and learn and practice a new way of life. Just for now, just for this moment.

Acceptance that I can only do the work right now, just for today, in this moment. I will choose to slow down and focus on what I am doing for recovery today. I will not get caught living in the past or worry about what I will be and do tomorrow. I will practice being fully present this day in my recovery work.

I choose to leave behind my past. I choose to seek a new way of living as I do my step work today, just for today.

Yes. I've been attending the meetings for about 5 months and am still a beginner at working and knowing the steps. So I'm excited to start this undertaking. Also I just got a sponsor, so it's nice to have some direction.

I hope to find strength to help me in recovery. To learn about myself and others.

Of course I'm afraid I might relapse, or give up.

Because life's struggles are day to day, so you have to work day to day to get help.

I'm really ready, even though I know there is no quick fix, and it's something I'll need to work on the rest of my life. Why now? Because I've tried on my own so many times and failed every time. The harm I've cause myself and others. I want something better, something real.

First time I've confessed everything to my wife. First time I've tried a 12 step program.

Giving up secrecy, willing to leave behind the lust and addiction. Willing to devote time and work to overcome my addiction.

I honestly have mixed feelings. I feel like I've done things like this before so there is a thought in the back of my mind telling me that it won't help or it'll be the same this time. On the flip side, I know that I've either rushed through it in the past, or not given it the consistent effort it deserves, so I know that I don't have an accurate personal idea of how effective it can be. I have heard really good things from other members of my group and my sponsor. I'm hopeful.

I hope that I can stop using pornography in a way that is more sustainable. I also hope that I can get back to being and feeling a lot of the things that I haven't been over the last 5 or so years.

I'm afraid that nothing will change, I'll slide backwards and I'll spend money that we don't need to be spending.

I think having a structured approach is really good for my brain. The abstract lack of structure that I had when I was working the steps on my own wasn't really working for me.

I want to be. I want to say yes, but I know that there is a part of me that wants to keep it. I would say that the true version of myself is ready and willing to turn my will over and the addiction. I think I've been willing in a lot of ways at various points throughout my life, but I didn't know how to stop.

Having a daily structured program will be really helpful. I plan on continuing to touch base with my sponsor daily, limit video games, build new habits, manage stress, and do scripture study, but my structured recovery reading and writing efforts have been inconsistent and lacking.

I'm willing to leave behind the feeling of a need to see if something is possible or to explore the whatif (for example can I get around a filter, is there porn on youtube, can I make Grok create pornographic content, is there sex in this movie, etc.)

I honestly have mixed feelings. I feel like I've done things like this before so there is a thought in the back of my mind telling me that it won't help or it'll be the same this time. On the flip side, I know that I've either rushed through it in the past, or not given it the consistent effort it deserves, so I know that I don't have an accurate personal idea of how effective it can be. I have heard really good things from other members of my group and my sponsor. I'm hopeful.

I hope that I can stop using pornography in a way that is more sustainable. I also hope that I can get back to being and feeling a lot of the things that I haven't been over the last 5 or so years.

I'm afraid that nothing will change, I'll slide backwards and I'll spend money that we don't need to be spending.

I think having a structured approach is really good for my brain. The abstract lack of structure that I had when I was working the steps on my own wasn't really working for me.

I want to be. I want to say yes, but I know that there is a part of me that wants to keep it. I would say that the true version of myself is ready and willing to turn my will over and the addiction. I think I've been willing in a lot of ways at various points throughout my life, but I didn't know how to stop.

Having a daily structured program will be really helpful. I plan on continuing to touch base with my sponsor daily, limit video games, build new habits, manage stress, and do scripture study, but my structured recovery reading and writing efforts have been inconsistent and lacking.

I'm willing to leave behind the feeling of a need to see if something is possible or to explore the whatif (for example can I get around a filter, is there porn on youtube, can I make Grok create pornographic content, is there sex in this movie, etc.)

I am hesitant as it is something new, and I know that it will be hard. But I want to take control of my life again, so I feel that I need to do it.

I hope that I can find ways to control myself and become a better man. I would like to salvage my relationships and work towards having healthy relationships with others. I also want to find a way to forgive myself for my past actions.

I'm afraid that I will relapse and/or will lose some of my most precious relationships.

I need structure in my life, so I think that working on them on a day to day basis will allow me to enter recovery and hopefully one day be stable in it, continuing to get better and improving myself.

I want to maintian a close relationship with my wife, I feel I need to completly turn it over to my heavenly father in order to become the man that she want's to be with. But at the same time, if she decides to not stay with me I want to be able to have the peace from Heavenly Father in order to improve myself and be able to maintain healthy relationships.

I need to do this for myself and I need to do it for my family. So I am committed to working the steps and finding ways to control myself.

I am willing to leave behind my old habits and addictions and work on improving my character flaws.