Day 41

          When you make changes to improve your life, not everyone will be happy for you. Many people resent the people near them who are bettering themselves. It is not your job to be liked by everyone, it is you job to grow as a person. Why else would we be here? I've discovered that when I've told people about my changes they have one of two reactions: the first group will tell me how amazing it is that I am focusing on improving my life, and the second group will tell me how ridiculous it is. I think that I have let the cynical voices of others run my life, and I tend to reclaim my life as my own. I am a hopeless romantic, I am kind, and I am honest, I am also sassy, smart, and funny. It is hard for me to claim the good qualities of myself when I have been taught by society to focus on the negative. I am desperately working to change my thought processes to a more positive note. I will continue to do so, until being positive IS my nature. I am not perfect, and I constantly fight my want to be perfect. We were not put on this planet to be perfect, we were put on it to live.

Lesson:

Persistence is more important than perfection.