Blueprint for Progress: Al-Anon's Fourth Step Inventory

by Al-Anon Family Groups

This revised and expanded workbook has a number of new topics including fear, anger, control, intimacy, sex, finances, and spirituality. Spiral bound and 8 ½ x 11, with room for writing answers. Three-hole punched, so it can fit inside a notebook. 96 pages.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

96 pages, Spiral-bound

First published June 1, 1987

Reviews

[Jean Marie Angelo · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is a passage in this book in the chapter on maturity that changed my life the first time I read. I was 24 at the time. I have reread it many times since:

Maturity is the growing awareness that you are neither all powerful nor helpless. It could be said to be the knowledge of what is, what might be, and what cannot be. It is not a destination; it is a road. It is the moment you wake up after some grief or staggering blow and think, “I’m going to love after all.” It is the moment when you find something you long believed is not so; and, in parting with old convictions you find that you are still you; the moment that you discover that someone else can do your job as well as you — but you go on doing it anyway; the moment that you do the thing you have always been afraid of; the moment you realize you are forever alone, but so is everyone else; and the hundred moments you see yourself as you are. It is letting life happen in its own good order and making the most of what there is. It is, “Letting go and letting God.”

I have done the Blueprint several other times in life and I will return to it again. This time I worked through it slowly, taking only small sections and then sharing my findings. When I was younger I just wanted to hurry through everything. Now I want to savor what I am learning. It is against my nature to go slow, but I think this approach yielded my most rewarding inventory.

[Chrysta]

I'm working through Step 4 using the Blueprint for Progress. It's very detailed but the gentle questions carefully help me work Setp 4 with my sponsor.

[Gia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book puts the "searching" in "a fearless and searching" moral inventory

[Nannette Serra · Rating 5 out of 5]

12-steps admonishes us to "sweep your own side of the street." Whenever I get too critical of other people, I step back and take another 4th step.

[Kathy Cramer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life changing if you are ready.

[Diane Sametz · Rating 5 out of 5]

For any one seriously involved in doing the work of a 12 Step Program this book is essential in completing a personal inventory.

[Carmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've done this in a small group and it was amazing. I'm ready to do it again. I think. This is a workbook for the 4th step.

[Margie · Rating 3 out of 5]

4th Step workbook for those Al-Anon members undertaking their personal inventory. Many helpful prompts help the thinking process.

[Nora · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book that needs 2 years to read. Now the fifth step ...