Working the 10th Step with a sponsee, I said. “No one really takes a daily inventory at night. I never have, but you do it as an exercise for a week. Hell, I will too.” In the Notes section of my phone, I quickly inventoried the day: service (texted with a sponsee, shared at a meeting, advised a former writing student), successes (wrote for an hour, worked out ) failures (didn’t write, didn’t work out), amends (did I need to make any?). It felt damn good, so I kept doing it for year. Then I stopped. Time to start again.