I need to internalize what I just read on the Dope - no one cares anywhere near as much about you as you think they do. I obsess over how I seem to others – I need to just be myself and do the best I can and not worry about it. I know that I don’t ever mean to hurt or offend anyone and need to stop worrying that others are judging me.
And ditto to all of this!
I can’t decide if I would change my character to bold-face or italic, but I’m sure I’d like to increase my font size by a few points.
I wish I can change my absolute perfection in all tasks I flawlessly complete in record time. Also, my charm and stunning good looks is unmatched by mankind and voluptuous women pursue my affections constantly. Of course I bed them down but afterward feel remorse knowing this has spoiled them for any future sexual encounter with other less worthy men and they will feel unfulfilled. I would also change my unmatched ability to solve complex problems and issues before anyone even suspects something may be amiss.
The final part of my character I might tweak could be related to my habitual lying but that’s just a minor flaw in my otherwise perfect existance.
I am ridiculously lazy, and I get inordinately angry at the idea of cleaning up after other people (i.e. housework). I do it but boy am I mad about it.
I used to feel I should be working harder.
Now I have a six-year old, and projects at work I really care about. Working hard is no longer a problem. (Yay?) Now I really, really need to stop stressing out. I’m turning into a stressed out witch.
I need to go to bed before eleven o clock. (I can do this, with a little effort) I need to start really stress-burning excercising, other then the frantic biking I do in 8 minute bursts four times a day. I need to stop eating sugar so I won’t be so damn tired all the time. And I need to apply everything I know about mindfullness and - breathe, damnit !
I’ve got a weird combination of having ridiculously high standards for myself and being incredibly lazy. I either need to adjust my expectations of what I want to do with my life, or get some self-discipline and stop procrastinating.
This. YESSS. Me too. :smack:
I have some “excuse” for my poor habits: I have ADD, which makes time and project management a real trial. It’s very hard for me to stay on a task long enough to finish it, without jumping to something else.
Like you, I’m also a perfectionist, so sometimes if I can see that I’m not going to be able to do something flawlessly, I’ll just not do it at all.
Seems like a couple of inconvenient character traits to occur together, doesn’t it? 
Lots of things I want / need to change, but I’ll just pick two
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My attitude about mental illness / people with mental illness.
I’ve recently become aware that I hold a lot of prejudice and intolerance in that area. It’s hard because on one hand I don’t want to be intolerant, especially when people liken it to other diseases, like cancer. But on the other hand, I find that hard to accept… I’m working on it. -
Remembering people’s names. It takes me an embarassingly long time to remember people’s names, and given that I’ve been living in this neighbourhood for 3 years now, it’s getting ridiculous. I feel like the rudest, self-centred, uncaring person in the greater region when that awkward moment when it’s clear I can’t recal the person’s name happens
