Self-Restraint: Control over your own actions or feelings that keeps you from doing things that you want to do but should not do. If you show self-restraint you do not do something even though you would like to do it, because you think it would be better not to.
help because they show me how repetitive our Founders were when they wrote the books. They knew we wern't listening most of the time so they had to say the same things over and over and over. Most of the time they didn't even bother to use different words. They used the same words to say the same things, often in the same paragraph, sometimes in the same sentence.
I may have made that last point up.
From Step Ten in the 12&12: "In all these situations we need self-restraint . . . Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen. For we can neither think nor act to good purpose untile the habit of self-restraint has become automatic. Disagreeable or unexpected problems are not the only ones that call for self-control."
All of these lines were from the same paragraph in Step Ten.
I definitely made part of that up. The last sentence was the first sentence in the second paragraph and not in the same paragraph but that's so close I hoped I could get away with such a minor lie, one given with such noble intent. A good lie, right, not an evil, nasty lie. But the point is that apparently self-restraint is one of our goals. Because it is repeated five times in a manner of seconds.
OK, I made that up, too. It's not repeated in a manner of seconds - more like minutes - but seconds sounds so much more impressive.
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