"We're responsible for the effort not the outcome."
There is a famous chapter in the AA Big Book that talks about how when a newcomer enters a 12-step fellowship we ask them to start changing all of the sudden. This can be a tall order. But the reading goes on to say that no one has ever been able to complete perfectly the 12-Steps of Recovery. It is in the effort to accept and incporporate them that the change comes. Progress, not perfection.
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