Don't take anything personal. I'm embarassed to say that I have a problem with this. Don Miguel Ruiz says in his book The Four Agreements that if we take things personally it is the ultimate in selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me."
He says that during our education we learn to take everything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. He goes on to say that all people live in their own dream, in their own mind and live in a completely different world from the one you live in.
Ruiz says that taking things personally makes you easy prey for those predators trying to send you emotional poison. He states that they hook you with one little opinion, and feed you all their garbage. When you take it personally, it becomes your garbage.
He states that by taking things personally we set ourselves up to suffer for nothing. Ruiz suggests that we write Don't Take Anything Personally on a piece of paper and put it on the refrigerator. I'm going to work on this and trust myself to make responsible choices.
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