Exercise VI.

TAKING DAILY INVENTORY

Your daily emotions, attitudes, and actions, both positive and negative, move you either
further into recovery or back toward drinking/using or other self-defeating behavior.
Assessing your progress frequently is an important part of maintaining your commitment
to change. This exercise will help you identify risk factors and successes early.

1. Using a rating scale where 1 = low and 5 = high, score yourself daily on the following.

Moving further into recovery Moving toward relapse

Honest with self Dishonest
Honest with others Resentful
Living for today Depressed
Hopeful Self-pitying
Active Critical of self/others
Prompt Procrastinating
Relaxed Impatient
Responsible Angry
Confident Indifferent
Realistic Guilty
Reasonable Anxious
Forgiving Ashamed
Trusting of others Fearful
Content with self Withdrawn
Helpful to others Demanding
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2. How did you improve today? ____________________________________________

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3. What roadblock(s) to recovery/progress can you identify today? ________________

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4. Is there anything you wish you had done differently today? ____________________
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5. What is your level of commitment to recovery/remaining abstinent today? ________

(Rating)

6. What did you learn about yourself today that you can use to assist continued progress?
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7. Did you begin working on any new changes today? If so, what are they? __________
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Remember to bring completed work sheet to your next appointment.