Recently someone said something that stuck with me like a mantra. In my world, and maybe yours too, where a lot of the times self-consciousness has prevented me from either responding quickly to a situation, or going for a goal I know would have made me happy to have accomplished, the practice of "taking myself out of the equation" would have come in handy.

I struggle a lot with this because I am not entirely convinced that my true self is a safe thing to show the world. There's several factor that have perpetuate this thought and have ultimately affected how I conduct myself into the world.

- I am hard on myself. I see my mistakes as being quite