“Don’t be afraid of perfection,
you’ll never reach it anyway!”
I really like this one 🙂
What a relief,
what a reassurance!
Finally, we can:
Stop trying to be perfect,
Stop being too harsh on ourselves (and others),
Stop being disappointed, all the time,
Stop being angry with ourselves when we did not handle a situation perfectly, (as if there were such a thing …)
I know it is hard to let go of that thought of perfection.
I think most of us were raised in the atmosphere of:
You can never work hard enough,
Your results can always improve,
Always focusing on where you failed instead of praising all the things you did good,
Making sure people won’t talk -badly- about you, …
I think you can picture the situation.
And I do not say this to judge the people who raised us, no, not at all.
They only did it out of love,
out of fear that otherwise our lives would be (too) hard.
No, I only mention this so that you’re able to recognize when you’re still behaving:
in a way to please people,
in a way of trying to be perfect,
out of fear of not being good enough.
It is time to stop this behavior.
Don’t be mad when you still slip up from time to time.
No, just recognize it, name it, and let it go.
Move on with the intention of being kind to yourself.
You are good enough!
We all live our lives trying to make the best of it,
trying to help out where we can.
So, we are doing great.
No sane person lives his life saying:
I’ll work as poorly as possible,
I’ll hurt as many people as possible,
I’ll be as hateful as possible.
No, I do not believe that.
We all try our best, in our own various ways.
I’ll go even further and say: even if you think people behave in this atrocious way: think for a minute why this could be. Mostly it is because they are lacking love, approval, kindness from others.
Being nice to them already makes a world of difference.
To them and to you.
My invitation to you all this week is:
Stop looking for perfection
in your own life and in other people’s lives!
Stop looking for where you/people failed, for where you/they
messed up.
Stop trying to impress people,
just do the best YOU can and sometimes reward will follow and sometimes not, that’s okay. Your reward is that you did the best you could, you helped out in the way you were able to.
Stop living a life thinking what other people may or may not say about it.
It’s your life!
Only you know how to live it!
Make it as beautiful as possible.
When you live from your heart:
you’ll automatically do your best,
you’ll be kind,
you’ll be loving.
And that is all that matters.
Your heart is never wrong.
You are doing great.
You are perfectly imperfect.
And so is everyone around you.
Thank you all for reading my imperfect blogs!
Katrien
www.lifecoachwomen.be