One way I found to make life easier:

Accept that you are not perfect.

That you make mistakes.

That people might get annoyed with you, like how you get annoyed with some people.

That you might disappoint people, like how some people has disappointed you.

That you might fail and fall sometimes.

And all that is okay. We are not God.

It's NORMAL for us to make mistakes. Nothing shocking there.

Get over it, put it under God's grace, and move on.

Change is done by the Holy Spirit, and not by your might.

Just look back to His righteousness when you fail. It's how good He is that matters, not how good you are.


I find this makes life so much easier.

Especially for a perfectionist like me.