In Step Six, I examine my defects not individually but overall:
The result of living life based on self-will.
I don't work on defects.
To work on something, I must have it.
To have it, I must have kept it.
The programme says to get rid of defects, not keep them.
I don't do the removal.
God does the removal.
I ask God to remove them.
I'm not off the hook:
The last five Steps are mine to take.
Steps Eight and Nine removed my attachment to self.
Sane and sound ideals / a vision of God's will for provide the way forward:
What would God have me be (page 68)?
What would God have me do (pages 86 to 88)?
Then I busy myself with Steps Ten through Twelve.
If I do the right thing the right way: no defect.
All I do must be under the heading of Steps Ten through Twelve.
God removes the defects but, in line with Concept VI:
I take chief initiative and active responsibility for their removal ...
... by taking Steps Ten through Twelve.
Here's my attitude:
I don't exist.
I don't matter to me.
I am here only to be used by God.
I am to have no opinion on outside matters.
What is an outside matter?
Anything beyond the next right action.