 Oh mate, Alex Jones was right man. I'm stuck in an Australian concentration camp. I mean this is grim. I mean this is where I'm stuck. They really do have concentration camps for the people here in Australia. It's a it's a police state man. It's a big brother. This is this is this is all I've got man. This is all I've got. I'm stuck here. It's a police state but the restrictions have gone too far bro. Oh man. Let me find a little cubby hole here. I've got to keep my voice down in case a big brother gets to me. So thinking about working your program. So this is a good time to meditate on philosophical issues. I'm stuck in a concentration camp. So you can believe in God but you can still eat too much. You can still debt too much. You can still spend too much. You can still drink too much. You can still do too many drugs. Right. So theoretical or religious belief in God. It may not cut it. You may have an addiction or a compulsion or you may be continually doing things that you wish you didn't do and believing in God or just practicing your religion as you've been doing it. It's not going to be enough. It's not going to provide you with enough power to to overcome these compulsions and addictions. So it's not just belief in God. I think we need a new relationship with God. We need a new way of connecting with a power greater than ourselves and just going through the motions and doing the same old thing may not cut it. So we need to take things to a whole new level. And if you're believing in God but patronizing prostitutes or looking at pornography online or stealing from your employer then need a whole new relationship with God. And I think that begins with a whole new relationship with other people. And so humility means recognizing what you can learn from other people living in reality. Compliance with God's will and starts with compliance with people who are in proper authority over you. Whether it's health officials or an employer or people who are more senior in your community or parents where you all are accountable to other people. None of us are running this show the whole time. We're always in positions where other people will have precedence over us. And so I think complying with God begins with complying with other people and working in your program. So in 12 steps it usually means going to meetings or this is my little coming up here in the Australian Concentration Camp. They're calling a sponsor following sponsors direction but that's not the only meaning of working your program right. It could mean reading biographies of people who found recovery. It could mean going bowling with other people in recovery. It could mean going to parties with other people in recovery. It could mean going to coffee with other people in recovery. Going out to eat. Going for a bush walk. Going bush biking. Like going to a game with other people in recovery. So there are many ways to work a program and I think unless you use the program to connect with other people then I don't think there's any real recovery. Otherwise you're just stuck in a Concentration Camp like this. You don't want to be stuck in a small room like this. Just trying to figure out oh is there any light here? Can I find my way out? How do I get out of here? I'm not stuck in this camp alone. There's a way out. So I think there are many ways of working the program. There are YouTube videos. I've got some protein bars here. I've got my supplements. So maybe a police tape but hey it's mine. So if you're bored with your religion it's got to be like a new approach. It's got to be like some new mentor you can find in your religion or a new community or new activities. New social groups. Like every religion has so many different social groups. Like there's maybe a security group that you can volunteer with and maybe help the homeless group or exercise group or a networking group. So working a program doesn't have to be dull and predictable and just doing the same old thing. So in 12 step or in religion or in the workplace there's got to be new ways of approaching your traditional responsibilities that can add excitement and energy and just new levels of interest. Something that will compel you to go forward. So if you're getting a church or getting a synagogue and you're bored out of your mind maybe there's a new church or a new synagogue or a new way of approaching church or synagogue. Maybe there's a new group of people that you need to mix with. If you're going to meetings and your mind's wandering and you're not getting anything out of it then there's got to be a new way like spending time with people outside of meetings or having an accountability partner. You want to change something you need an accountability partner. Most of us can't make painful substantial changes on our own. So many of us I think we're stuck in like a concentration camp of our own habits and compulsions and the only way out is through connection with other people and opening yourself up to learning from them because from connection comes energy and to do anything good important you have to have energy. Energy comes from connection with others and tuning into others being on the same page with other people having a rhythm with other people.