It is ridiculously hard, trust me, I've been there. And the worst is that you can't really even get advice, since it's such a personal thing--you really can't ask anyone else how you see yourself, you know? I'm coming up on almost a year of being a coyote after eleven(!!!) years of being a husky, and that was really hard. And then I picked up a woodrat alt while I was at it just because I was starting to drift that way and didn't want to have a whole big identity crisis AGAIN, arg. It's a mess sometimes, I don't know what to tell you other than good luck.

UGGGGH
I know right. It's not something I could ask for help on cause in the end it only depends on me. And I wanna choose right so I dont change it left and right cause as you said it's hard to switch ; A ;. It's killing me. </3

Well, in my opinion, your fursona is the animal(s) most like you. So look up their habitat, diet, sleep schedule, family dynamic and other such things and compare them to yours. I've helped a few people find their fursona so I'm more than willing to help! ^w^ <3

Haha, oh yeah, that reminds me of the other big problem I had, too.

That strategy is all well and good for a starting point, but I quickly realized that following that through all the way to the en would just be perpetuating stereotypes and caricatures. I actually find it much more interesting when you have characters and people who don't just blindly follow the template like that! If your personality changes ("I used to be a snow leopard, but then I eventually came to realize that I don't really even like the cold that much...") then I personally think sticking with it and being that snow leopard who actually dislikes the cold to have better character development and more uniqueness than whipping out the big list of stereotypes and finding whatever convenient mold you're more like now, you know?

Then the problem there is that taking that too far completely ruins the point of using traits as a guide. I was thinking coyote for myself because it's more native to where I'm actually from, does better in desert climates, and some traits like that that match up with me, but then stuff like being predatory killers and the whole Native American Trickster archetype were things I just tossed out because I rejected the notion that I'm not allowed to be a coyote without living up to them, or something. But then I realized that what I'm doing is basically cherry-picking stats, and saying "this one is so like me ^___^" for all the hits and "bah, no one ever said I had to be like that" for the misses. And by that logic, there is pretty much no reason whatsoever why or why not to be anything at all, ever, and we're right back to square one. :(