Welcome to the ___________________ meeting of Procrastinators Anonymous. This is a closed meeting, which means that it's open only to those who acknowledge that they are compulsive procrastinators or suspect they might be.
My name is ______________________ and I'm a procrastinator. I'll be chairing the meeting today.
Would someone please read the Preamble?
Would someone please read the Steps, and the Tradition corresponding to this month?
Would someone please read the Signs?
Would someone please read the Tools?
For small meetings: Let's introduce ourselves by first name only.
If you are a newcomer or a visitor from another meeting, please let us know so we can welcome you.
Our 7th tradition reminds us that we are self-supporting through our own contributions.
Face-to-face meetings: Are there any announcements while the basket is going around?
Online meetings: If you haven't yet made a contribution to the PA Web this year, please click the "Contribute" button on the home page. If you contributed more than a year ago, please remember that the Web site expenses are on-going. Does anyone have any PA announcements?
Business meetings are held on the last week of each month, following the recovery meeting. You must be present at the business meeting to propose an issue for discussion.
This is a one hour discussion meeting. We'll choose a topic related to procrastination, and then share on that topic until 5 minutes before the end of the meeting.
Before we open the meeting for sharing, a word about crosstalk guidelines, which help keep our meeting safe. Crosstalk means giving unsolicited feedback or advice, answering, making "you" and "we" statements, interrogating, debating, criticizing, controlling, or dominating. In our meetings we speak about our own experience, and we listen without comment to what others share. We work toward taking responsibility in our own lives, rather than giving advice to others.
Please limit your sharing to that everyone has a chance to share.
Would anyone like to suggest a topic for discussion?
[[discussion time]]
In closing, we would like to remind you that the opinions expressed here were strictly those of the individual who gave them. Take what you like and leave the rest.
If we are to recover, we must feel free to say what is in our minds and hearts, so please remember to respect anonymity. Let whom you see here and what was said here stay here when you leave here. (Herestay!)
Let's close with a moment of silence, followed by the Serenity Prayer.
God, grant me
the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.