I must admit I have a personal weakness — I hate to be told to do anything, much less change. While I believe in the importance of change, and always challenging one’s views against the changing backdrop of the world as it may appear today, I have an awful strong resistance to being told to do one thing or another.

When people tell me something, my first response is either no or that I am morally right. I can be an awful difficult person to bargain with, and sometimes I should take my hat off and put it behind me and realize that I’ve made a mistake. Yet, too often I fail to do that until it’s too late. I hate to be viewed as a total jerk with things, but sometimes that just in my nature.

I need to learn to accept the changing world, and make sure that I know all the facts before I tell people no. Sometimes I should just be honest and say I need more time to consider the proposition before I tell people what I really think of them.