S4 Ep3: Are You Perfect Being Imperfect?
Perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Nobody’s life is perfect.
That’s not the truth, though. The truth is that everyone’s life is perfectly imperfect.
Everyone makes mistakes. You, me, everyone. We all get it wrong, choose poorly, and hurt ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and/or spiritually.
On the other hand, everyone succeeds. You, me, everyone. We all get it right, choose wisely, and help/heal ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and/or spiritually.
Choices, options, decisions, opportunities, empowerment
We live in a society with rules and laws. On top of that, there are traditions, “norms”, and tried and true ways and means.
Small children play with passion and abandon. They try new things all the time. The world is full to overflowing with potential and possibilities.
Somewhere along the way, however, they get introduced to concepts like winning and losing, competition, right and wrong, morality, and more. Now, the potential and possibilities are curtailed by restrictions, money, expectations of others, and various other artifices.
Self-empowerment is something we all have. It’s how the perfectly imperfect is recognized and applied to control the elements of our lives that we can control.
Perfection is wildly variable
What to me is perfect to you might be an utter disaster. What you see as perfect I might see as imperfect. This is utterly natural – because that’s how the Universe works.
We are constantly striving for perfection. And when it eludes us, we suffer. Over and over we cycle through this. We are as variable as perfection. Thus, we sometimes chase, other times just exist, and sometimes embrace the imperfection of life. That’s human nature.
Mindfulness of perfection and imperfection
The mythical, elusive “they” prefer people to be merely existing and living largely subconsciously.
“They” suggest that the “perfection” of the world as we know it shouldn’t be questioned.
Nothing could be a bigger lie, frankly.
We can choose to change our lives. That might have challenges to it, open us to imperfection, and be scary. But we have the power – we just need to choose and decide to take it.
Embracing our perfectly imperfect lives can show us a world of potential and possibilities waiting to become our reality. We just need to choose for ourselves what that is, in the present.
This week’s Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool:
This can either be applied to an existing project or a future one.
Take something you’ve been putting off because you wanted to get it perfect or were waiting for an appropriate time. Whether it’s writing a chapter, creating a poem, building a website, creating a photo album, cleaning a room, or whatever.
Stop waiting for the “perfect” circumstance and do it.
Clean the room, write the chapter, paint the wall, build the website – just do it. Done is better than perfect. What’s more, perfect is in the eye of the beholder. Waiting for the perfect time, circumstance, or whatever becomes procrastination.
So, big or small – just do the thing. Get it done. Because done and perfectly imperfect is better than not done.
Note how finally getting that thing done feels.
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