May 11

It doesn’t have to be perfect.

… your decision

… your project plan

… your vision, your intentions, your goals

… your resume

… your inbox

… your home

… your failures (yes, perfectionists even like to fail perfectly)

… your family

… your gifts

… your timing

… your words

… your balance on the yoga mat

… your moves on the dance floor

… your special night

… your wedding

… your recovery

… your willpower

… your relationship

… your thoughts

… your patience

… your attendance

… your productivity

… your motivation

… your kindness

… your outfit

… your blog post or journal entry

… your schedule

… your finances

… (fill in the blank!)

What can you add to this list? If you’re a bit like me than I’m sure you can add quite a few items!

By reminding yourself of perfectionistic thinking, you can examine your actions with a more flexible and far kinder mindset.

It doesn’t have to be perfect and neither do you.

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Jill Marie May 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM

I love this and so timely for me as I was just talking with a friend about this at brunch. I will print it out and give a copy to my beautiful daughter who has the Perfectionist gene.

I love to affirm for myself that “I am imperfectly perfect”. That may not resonate with others but it brings me a big smile and feeling of joy and peace :)

Thank you!

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Lori May 13, 2012 at 5:44 PM

Thanks for the reminder. I struggle a lot with perfectionism and making sure everything goes perfect and I get frustrated when things go wrong. So thank you. :-)

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Alison May 14, 2012 at 10:32 AM

What a beautiful reminder. Thank you for this today. I needed it. I feel so inadequate sometimes.

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