What are the list of character defects?
What are the list of character defects?
List of Character Defects
- Greed.
- Anger.
- Fear.
- Cowardice.
- Egotism.
- Guilt.
- Dishonesty.
- Impatience.
What are character defects examples?
Examples of common character defects include:
- Anger and Hatred.
- Selfishness and self-centeredness.
- Being dishonest and lying regularly.
- Defensiveness.
- Constantly playing the victim.
- Blaming self and others.
- Antagonistic.
- Close-mindedness.
What is considered a character defect?
A character flaw, or character defect, is any type of imperfection in the way a person thinks or behaves. Some “flaws,” like sleeping in a little bit past your alarm every morning or taking showers that could be considered “too long” by normal standards, are not negatively impacting anyone.
How do I get rid of character defects?
One approach that many take to removing their character defects is to write each item on their list on a separate piece of paper, drawing a defect from a hat or a jar every day so that they may work on them one at a time. In order to work on our defects, we must do more than simply avoid expressing them on a given day.
What are the 14 defects of character?
Here are the defects of character:
- Resentment, Anger.
- Fear, Cowardice.
- Self pity.
- Self justification.
- Self importance, Egotism.
- Self condemnation, Guilt.
- Lying, Evasiveness, Dishonesty.
- Impatience.
Are shortcomings and character defects the same?
In the recovery world, character defects are the flaws, shortcomings, or deficiencies that will continue to make you abuse drugs and alcohol while you silently suffer or take your pain out on someone else. Some of the more common character defects can cause complete chaos in your life.
How do I ask God to remove my shortcomings?
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings. When ready, we say something like this: “My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.
What’s the difference between a character defect and a shortcoming?
is that shortcoming is deficiency while defect is a fault or malfunction.
What does AA say about character defects?
There are 20 character defects to ask about — the individual wrongs are not necessary to go over, just the defects that caused them. Going over the questions, you ask that the person be honest and admit his defects to himself, to you, and to God (where two or more are gathered in His name, there shall He be.)
How do I humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings?
a) In your journal, write out a prayer for each shortcoming that you are entirely ready to have removed. Humbly ask your Higher Power to remove it. b) Write out a prayer for each shortcoming that you are not entirely ready to have removed. Humbly ask your Higher Power to make you ready to have it removed.
What are the character defects in AA?
What does humbly asked God mean?
Humbly asking God to change you is like asking to be rescued. You have to admit you can’t do it yourself. This is actually very good news.