Getting Unstuck -Step Six

[janbear]

Problems can translate into healthy challenges if we approach them with optimisim. We've already acknowledged that we're the ones who created the situation we find ourselves in. But we've also discovered that we have the courage and-hand in hand with our Higher Power-the ability to change negatives into positives.
The gap between how our lives are, and how we want them to be, creates tension. But tension is a two-way street. It can act as a catapult to thrust us into a more productive life pattern, or it can drag us back into the pit we're struggling to escape.
We have to recognize that until we cease trying to place the blame on people, places, or things; until we stop denying our responsibility; until we stop defending our reasons for past behaviour, we're hopelessly stuck.
If on the other hand, we look at what our denial and defensiveness are covering up-and what they are trying to tell us-we begin to see opportunities to turn those self-same liabilities into assets.

-Step by Step

[SkinnyNinja]

To me, step six is about action. Specifically, working on those character defects, actually making an effort.

Step seven is about asking HP to remove them. The idea is, I think, that we have to do our part too. We have to work on them ourselves in step six, so that HP can help us remove them in step seven.

In other words, it has to be more than "wishful thinking." We are taking some action.