Discipline is the spiritual principle behind step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

This is a spot check used throughout the day to monitor how we are feeling and doing. It is an opportunity to examine our thoughts and our motives. When we feel annoyed, anxious, bitter, or angry we ask ourselves who or what is causing it. We can ask what they are doing. We ask ourselves what part of me is affected. Is it my self-esteem, pride, personal relations, sex relations, emotional security, finance, ambitions, comfort level, or belief system, that is hurt, threatened, or interfered with? We ask ourselves what role we play in all of this. Ultimately, we are responsible for much of what is going on around us, and especially how we react to it.

Finding our role in situations often gets us out of the victim's seat. When we fully realize we are responsible for our own well-being we will be less restless, irritable, and discontented toward others. When we find our own faults we pray and apologize to others accordingly. When we see that others are suffering we can be compassionate toward them and pray for them. We can also guide them to work out their own problems in the same way that we have learned in the 12-step program. Love and tolerance of others is our code.