How to not take things so personally
It made me
Much happier 
"This is one of those goals that is probably never finished, but I feel I can now say that I don't take things as personally as I used to."
How I did it: I guess the first things were going to therapy - my therapist echoed the advice of Don Miguel Ruiz's Four Agreements book on not taking things as personally.
To learn to expect that others will try to use words against me, often from a place of pain in their own lives, and often having little or nothing to do with what I'm doing.
Not to go to the opposite extreme where I don't care what people say (and that's the "so" part that I hold on to), but to dispassionately examine criticism and find what if any truth about me is in it.
Lessons & tips: Read Don Miguel Ruiz's four agreements and talk to someone safe about it.
Resources: The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
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