Accepting the things I cannot change

You may have heard the saying, "God grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change..." I used to really have a hard time with the things that I wanted to change about myself. Early on in my tech career, I wanted to impress, please, shine, and at the same time - change into someone I was not. I compared myself to my peers a lot. Like a lot! I found myself feeling like a failure in the middle of success and promotions. How can a person like me get a promotion when I need to do x, y and z and I still don't know how to... whatever.

Fast forward to my ADHD diagnosis and a rabbit trail of 3 years of learning about it and accepting my version of it. I now accept that I am not what I used to think that I wanted to be. If that makes any sense? I am me - the me'ist me that I can be.

Sure, there are things I would like to "change," but now I see those things as learning experiences to gain rather than me having character flaws. No one is perfect. Nothing is perfect. Accepting that about myself is one of the biggest gifts I can give myself.