CHARACTER DEFECTS INVENTORY

There are 20 character defects to ask about -- the individual wrongs are not necessary to go over, just the defects that caused them. The inventory is of our defects, not our incidents.
Going over the listing, we ask ourselves have we honestly admitted our defects to ourselves as we write out on paper how they have manifested in our lives and created the unmanageability we have known.

Here are the defects:

1. Harshness, Resentment, Anger.
2. Fear, Cowardice.
3. Self pity.
4. Self justification.
5. Self importance, Egotism.
6. Self condemnation, Guilt.
7. Lying, Evasiveness, Dishonesty.
8. Impatience.
9. Hate.
10. False pride, Phoniness, Denial.
11. Jealousy.
12. Envy.
13. Laziness.
14. Procrastination.
15. Insincerity.
16. Negative Thinking.
17. Immoral thinking.
18. Perfectionism, Intolerance.
19. Criticizing, Loose Talk, Gossip.
20. Greed.

Having admitted these defects to ourselves, are we willing to share them with another and with God? We must ask our self if we are willing to go to any length to get rid of these same defects that caused our life to be unmanageable. Do we want to get rid of them, even those that were "fun"?