Ready, Set, Let Go!

I remember when I first tried to understand the words of the Sixth Step and how they applied to my early attempts at a complete inventory. "What's the difficulty here," I said; "this Step seems simple; of course I'm ready and willing to have God remove any defects of character I might have!" I thought I might just as well skip directly from the Fourth and Fifth inventory Steps to Step Seven and go right ahead and ask God to remove my shortcomings. Why dally with Step Six which only requires readiness to have defects of character removed? "I'm always ready to have any such defects removed," I reasoned.