"On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives."
I'm not sure about you - but "on awakening" I tend to be racing about getting ready for the day ahead. Sometimes I wonder if those that wrote the Big Book had 9 to 5 jobs.
However, once I'm on the bus to work I do often remember the third step prayer. This has been, over the years, my most consistent form of concious contact with a power greater than myself.
