This morning I thought about some simple ways to describe the 12 step program.  It is a program to overcome and change my distorted thinking.   In it's goals it is very much like therapy or CBT but it differs in that it is a simpler form that uses the power of credibility that comes from the fellowship of recovered addicts.   It also utilizes a Higher Power that helps to overcome the infinite rationalizer in us all. 

I had to stop and look at the order of priority of the things that I wanted to do today and rethink what s truly important starting with the obligatory.