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Rule No.75 - Ease up on yourselves ....

... Have some compas sion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race. Did you know that there is a thing called Atelophobia? It's the fear of imperfection. Can you believe it, they actually have a real phobia name for it. That tells you that a lot of people have this phobia. I know I do. We are always worried that we are too chubby, too tall, too short, nose is skew, bum is too round, boobs aren’t big enough, or too big. I could go on forever, but we have these ideas that are fed to us about what beauty is. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those people that say how disgusting magazines are and how they are warping the minds of our generation, no, I buy those magazines, I love those magazines, and I think those woman are beautiful. But they set the standard for what we think we need to be. If you flip through the DSTV channels, you will find at least two shows about plastic surgery and weight loss shows. They are the