Improve Yourself

I have a board on Pinterest called Improve Yourself.  It's not a board about weight loss, hairstyles or learning a hobby.  It's solely about being a better person.  I started on this journey over a year ago.  Gosh, it is so hard.  Ugh.  There are days when I would do anything to revert to sarcasm, judging and putting on my armour of "I don't care".  But instead I remind myself of all the things I've done so far and search for new things to work or read a chapter or two of Brene Brown's book "Rising Strong".  Then I remind myself of this:

A couple of photos that I keep on my phone to refer have been great reminders/guidance for me. 

 First:

Really, can you argue with anything here?  And some of these are so hard! Like #6- I've been working on gratitude for a couple of months now with a gratitude journal, so that's easy.  But #9- tough for me.  Like anything, it gets easier with practice.  But sometimes I think it would be easier to learn to shoot a free throw and I'm the kind of person who can miss the garbage from 3 feet away.

You want even harder.  How about this one?  I literally did not know how to take criticism without becoming defensive and attacking back.  I still struggle.  This is one where I think I could master the mid court shot before I'll master handling criticism. 

What struggles do you have with personal improvement?