Alright I’m melancholy all the way!  And anyone that knows what a melancholy personality is knows how easily their feelings get hurt.  And let me just say that you look at me the wrong way and you might just hurt my feelings…I seriously can, and have been, be that sensitive!

I read a couple days ago my friend Kelly’s blog post about if you are melancholy and want to be great you need to accept criticism.  I’ve never been one to to accept criticism in a very graceful sort of way.  Generally someone can tell me something but it always ends in my feelings being hurt and lots of tears being shed.

So I just had to share because I’m really proud of myself.  I had a phone call just a little bit ago and along with it came some criticism.  At first I have to admit my feathers got a little ruffled and I was hurt but when I pushed those feelings away and listened to what she had to say (a lot of times I think a melancholy – at least myself – can easily tune out what they don’t want to hear) I realized how true her words were and that I needed to improve on some things.  And I’m happy to report that no tears were shed, I’m not moping around worrying about what she said and letting it stress me out.  Instead I’m working on my plan of improving things

So I’ve just shown myself that I can accept criticism and now I’m moving on to working towards being great   And just in case you missed the link to Kelly’s melancholy post you can check it out here.