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Step Ten
Nightly Review · Inventory, then turn the dial
This moment is a new beginning.
Last night's practiceYou said you would:
How did it go?
The sky doesn't become the storm. What follows is weather — patterns that showed up today. They are not who you are.
Seneca examined his whole day every evening, two thousand years before us. This is an old practice, and a good one.
There is no more waiting.
You are not moving toward a destination, and you are not waiting for a sign. You are standing in it now — dignity, purpose, meaning — already whole. What is available to you right now is everything you need. The fog is the only thing in the way. Step 10 does not get you something you lack — it clears the fog so you can see what was always yours, and act on it. Trust each step: God is with you in it, giving you the grace to do what you now see.
The four the book names selfishness · dishonesty · resentment · fear — tap one to open its writing space
SelfishnessWere we selfish?
DishonestyWere we dishonest?
ResentmentWere we resentful?
FearWere we afraid?
Then the questions that follow the nightly review — pp. 84–86
Do we owe an apology?
Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once?
Were we kind and loving toward all?
What could we have done better?
Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time?
or
were we thinking of what we could do for others
We have ceased fighting anything or anyone — even alcohol
…of what we could pack into the stream of life?
How clearly did I see myself tonight?
Inventory
clear today
freedom
Tomorrow, with God's grace, I will…
This is the practice you'll review here tomorrow night.
Freedom. Peace. Agency. Choice.
We have ceased fighting anything or anyone — even alcohol.
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
Be careful not to drift into worry, remorse, or morbid reflection — that would diminish your usefulness to others. This is observation, not self-condemnation.
Pass it on to someone who's still struggling — or share a summary with your sponsor. Nothing is ever sent automatically.
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Voices
Who speaks alongside the Big Book. The book and the steps are always on. The rest are yours to turn on — or leave off and keep it purely AA.
A word from John: I follow two teachers — Father John Main and Father Laurence Freeman. John Main was an Irish Benedictine who recovered something the church had mostly let go of — that sitting still in silence, saying one word over and over, is itself prayer. Not prayer's warm-up. Prayer. He taught one word: Maranatha, "Come, Lord." He died in 1982; Laurence Freeman carries the work on. Between them they taught me I don't have to produce anything when I pray — no words, no performance. I sit, and the prayer is already happening. I'm not sending anything up. I'm being received. The other voices below are the company I've walked with along the way — Merton, Nouwen, Jung, the Stoics, Plato, the newer science of positive psychology — and two of AA's own ancestors, Emmet Fox and William James. Each looks at the same truth from a different window. Turn on whoever helps; leave the rest off.
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About
Your five-minute nightly practice
A little honesty. A fresh beginning.
Notice today. Turn toward action. Begin again tomorrow.
Open Tonight. Read the prompts, tap what fits, and write what happened in the spaces that open.
SelfishnessDishonestyResentmentFear
Then work through the questions underneath.
2
Check your clarity
How clearly do you see yourself tonight?
FoggyMostly clearClear
Choose honestly. This is a check-in, not a grade.
3
Turn the dial
Tap Turn the dial, then follow each next button through to Complete.
1 · Forgive & releaseAsk God's forgiveness.2 · ShareTalk with someone you trust.3 · AmendPut right what you can.4 · HelpBe useful to someone.
Let the dial remind you of actions to take in your life.
4
Choose one small action
Finish: “Tomorrow, with God's grace, I will…”
For example: “Call my sponsor and speak honestly.”
5
Save. Live it. Come back.
Tap Save tonight. Tomorrow, try your action. Next evening, check in on how it went and begin again.
Tried · Not yet · Changed after reflection · Chose to pause
Be honest. Be kind to yourself. Keep coming back.A practice of reflection and action — not self-condemnation.
What this is
Step Ten says: "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." This tool turns that into a five-minute nightly practice. It is not a scorecard. The point is not to be "good" — it is to look honestly at what showed up today, and then do one small thing about it. The doing is the point, not the knowing.
How to use it
Start by reading pages 84–86 of the Big Book. Then read the prompts in Tonight, drawn from those pages.
Tap whatever showed up today.
Be honest about how clearly you see yourself — Foggy, Mostly clear, or Clear.
Turn the dial. It walks the other half of Step 10: forgive & release → share → amend → help.
Write one small thing you will do differently tomorrow.
Save, and come back tomorrow night.
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How to share this tool
Just share the link: step10-tool.vercel.app. There is no account to create, no fee, no gate. Anyone who opens the link can use it tonight.
Sharing with your sponsor
Your review is private by design — nothing is sent anywhere, ever. If you want to share with a sponsor, do it yourself, deliberately: tell them what came up, in your own words. That conversation is Step 5 and Step 10 living together. The tool never sends anything on your behalf — the sharing is yours.
Who made this
A gift from John Cunningham — 53 years sober. This tool is 12-step work: it's the Step 10 review, made easier to actually do. The coaching I do is not 12-step coaching. It's broader — mental-health coaching and positive psychology, closing the gap between what you know and what you actually do, for anyone who wants to live it rather than just understand it. If this helped and you'd like a person in your corner, find me at practiceflourishing.com — and I'll tell you straight whether it's a fit.
The voices — who speaks alongside the Big Book
The Big Book and the Twelve Steps are always on. The rest are optional companions, each looking at the same truth from a different window.
AA's own ancestors
William James (1842–1910) — the father of American psychology. His 1902 book The Varieties of Religious Experience studied hundreds of spiritual awakenings. Bill Wilson was handed a copy right after his own awakening in Towns Hospital, and found the insight that shaped the first three Steps: a transforming experience is nearly always preceded by total collapse — "deflation at depth." Bill called James "one of our founders."
Emmet Fox (1886–1951) — an Irish-born New Thought minister. His book The Sermon on the Mount (1934) reads Jesus' teaching as a practical manual for changing your life. It was read in the earliest AA rooms — in some circles, newcomers were handed it as required reading before AA had its own literature. His "Golden Key" — stop thinking about the difficulty and think about God instead — is the same turn Step 10 asks of us.
John's teacher
John Main (1926–1982) — an Irish Benedictine who recovered Christian meditation: sitting still in silence with a single word. He taught Maranatha — Aramaic for "Come, Lord." His family came from Ballinskelligs, County Kerry. His teaching sits at the heart of this tool's spiritual foundation: meditation is the prayer, not the warm-up.
The contemplatives
Thomas Merton — the true self and the false self. Henri Nouwen — the Beloved, the wounded healer.
The mind
Carl Jung — spiritus contra spiritum, "spirit against spirit"; the shadow. The Stoics — Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus: what is in your control, and what is not. Plato — the cave, and turning toward the light.
The science
Positive psychology — strengths, gratitude, and growth: the tested practices that turn knowing into doing.
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