So here’s the thing. I’m trying and trying. But life seems to be getting the best of me. It is full of many little irritations. I get tripped up every single time. I keep falling into the same damned holes. I haven’t learned to take a different street. I’ve read Joe Dispenza’s book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself more than once. Yet, here I am, still the same. I vow not to fall back in the same hole by reading it again. But I did skim and caught this sentence. “To truly change, you have to become greater than your present self.” It means rising above my current environment, circumstances and emotional habits.

Such a simple concept. It makes alot of sense and yet not so easy to implement. Here’s some pointers on how:

• Surpassing your environment. Think greater than how you feel.
• Break the habit of being yourself. Try a different personality. Change how you think, act and feel.
• Living in the future. Live as if your desired future is already a reality.
• Rewiring the brain. You can change your brain through contemplation and mental rehearsal to reflect a desired future experience.

In this moment of recognizing how hard it is to change I am more opened to accepting people as they are. It is a lightbulb moment. I tend to have high standards and hold everybody to them. While having high standards is not a bad thing, it is not always good to hold others to them. I am too rigid, leaning into perfectionism. I could cut myself some slack, too.