Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects – Steps Six and Seven – Quote 22

In surrendering, we are saying our way hasn’t worked (what a surprise!) We are willing to try it another way. We desire to be at peace with our beliefs. We are fortunate people. We have the opportunity to face the battle of understanding our lives. We have another go-round at a life once abandoned. We want to be winners, securely and absolutely. The willingness can be a sane and healthy choice or a reactive choice because of pain. We all get to choose—sooner or later, we get to choose. When considering the Sixth Step, we find that this approach separates the winners from the losers. **The winners actively seek and practice a new way of living. A new way of being. A new way of thinking. A new way of behaving. A new way of relating.** The losers wait until they are in so much pain that the choice becomes obvious, and then they choose to participate only enough to get the pain to stop.