Let there be typos.
Let there be failures.
Let dinner be breakfast.
Let there be times when you wish you had done things differently.
Let your morning routine start at noon.
Let your new year’s resolutions start in September.
Let there be disagreements with people you love.
Let there be lazy afternoons.
Let yourself be imperfect … imperfectly you.
~ bemorewithless.com
In our upbringing and our adult lives, we have usually been taught to strive for perfection. In school, the ultimate goal is to achieve 100% on a test. At home, parents taught us that abiding by their directives made us worthy. In our adult lives and professions, we aim to please and will often work long hours in order to fulfill the requirements of our jobs.
Overall, we learn from a very early age that our worth and meaning are intimately intertwined with our ability to be perfect or at least always strive to be perfect. The end result can be a life lived with unrealistically high standards that germinate low self-worth, lack of self-trust and very little self-care. Holding ourselves to perfectionist standards can steal our creativity and stifle our ability to be free.
Maybe it’s time to become a rebel and challenge the perfect part of you – ? –
- Allow yourself to make mistakes
- Stop comparing yourself to anyone
- Let go of the need for approval
- Let go of control
- Fear not – Let the outcomes be what they will be and trust you can manage them
- Have compassion for yourself, you will always be a work in progress!
- Let Breathwork Release what suffocates you and keeps you paralyzed. It is the elegant antidote to perfection that allows you breathing space to be authentically who you are which is what the world needs!
The short video below expresses a powerful view of the value of being imperfect shared by Brene Brown:
How might you embrace that which is not perfect in your own life?
Be well and love yourself,
John
