Step 10 Questions: Your Nightly Inventory Checklist

These Step 10 questions make up a short nightly inventory. There are six, and together they take only a few minutes: what upset you, what you did with it, who you owe, where you already made it right, what went right, and who you helped. Answer them most nights, not perfectly but steadily.

You can write the answers in a notebook or use the nightly review in the app. Bring anything heavy to your sponsor.

1. When you got upset, which was it: selfishness, dishonesty, resentment or fear?

Think back over the day or the week. Find the moments you got tense, angry, scared or defensive. Then name which of the four was underneath.

Guidance: Often it is more than one. Fear and resentment travel together. Naming it is half the work, because something with a name is easier to hand to God.

2. What did you do with it?

Did you pray? Call someone? Stuff it down? Say something sharp? Have a drink in your head, even if not in your hand?

Guidance: No judging here. You are just collecting facts. Over a few weeks you will see a pattern in what you do with these feelings.

3. Do you owe anyone an apology tonight?

If yes, write their name and when you will talk to them. Tomorrow morning is usually best.

Guidance: Keep it short. “I was out of line earlier. I’m sorry.” No long speech, and no “but you also.” If it is bigger than a quick apology, or if it touches money, the law or someone else’s privacy, talk it over with your sponsor or pastor first, the same way you did in Step 9.

4. Where did you make a quick amends this week?

Look for the times you already did it right. A quick apology, a debt paid on time, a truth told when it was easier to lie.

Guidance: This question trains you to notice the step working. It also shows you are not the person you were.

5. What went right today?

List two or three things. A kept promise, a calm answer, a prayer you meant, an hour with your kids.

Guidance: Don’t skip this. A review that is all faults becomes a trap of shame. This is where you thank God for His work in you.

6. Did you help anyone?

A call, a ride, listening to someone after a meeting, a small kindness at work.

Guidance: The book points toward helping others as the way out of brooding. If the answer is no, think of one person you can help tomorrow.

Before you call Step 10 done

The checks asked before the step is marked complete:

• Are you doing the nightly review most nights?
• Are you making amends promptly when you are wrong?

A verse to end the review

Find the reading and traps on the Step 10 page, and more Scripture on the Step 10 verses page. For the morning half of the day, go on to the Step 11 questions.

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