Willingness

So Step Six - "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" - is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job. This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was. A few of them may be, but with most of them we shall have to be content with patient improvement. The words "entirely ready" underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.   Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 65

I firmly believe that willingness is the most important component of any kind of successful life.  The willingness to try fail and try again, aka grit, is what makes successful people success.  Everybody has fails and setbacks.  Overcoming is the definition of success.

I am extremely grateful for my willingness to keep working on making my life better.

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