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III. To insure effective leadership, we
should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."
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If you have already made a
decision, and an inventory
of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
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Let him know you are available if he wishes to make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.
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If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or both, then the following suggestions
may be helpful.
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He has a positive genius
for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly when
some important decision must be made or engagement kept.
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Step Three -- "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him."
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In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
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So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven
to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
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Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
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The elder statesman is the
one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments.
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