Member-only story
Being perfectly imperfect
“I am a recovering perfectionist and an inspiring “good-enoughist.”
- Brené Brown
Can you think back to some instances where you felt you were being too hard on yourself? Perhaps they were not your proudest moments. Maybe you made a glaring mistake or regret how you chose to react to a situation. Either way, you moved on and kept living life. The toughest part of these instances can be having the ability to accept our flaws and not let them affect how we continue living our lives. Hopefully, we are able to learn from these instances and use them to help us become better versions of ourselves.
In a perfect world we would always make the smartest choices and always feel great about how we are handling life. In reality, we are all works in progress. None of us are finished products who somehow have life and ourselves all figured out. It’s not how life works. Life is a series of pop quizzes that continually challenge us to keep learning and growing. These pop quizzes are not meant to make us feel inferior or like we aren’t enough. Those are simply ways in which we can react. We can also choose to respond in a way that helps us to see that despite how far we have already come in life, we don’t have all the answers, and that’s OK.
One of the worst things we can do when we find ourselves reeling from a misstep is to mentally beat…
