Hello my fellow Love Crystals,
I'm coming at you today from a different angle, hinging on my own personal experiences... There was a period of time where everything I did was at 125% effort. I constantly labeled myself a "perfectionist", and would do whatever it took so that everything I completed was perfect. If I completed a task and it wasn't deemed perfect by myself, I would beat myself up over it. I would constantly think to myself, "why am I so bad at this? How come I can't get this right? I will never get this right". Eventually, if there was something I knew that I couldn't succeed at, I just wouldn't do it. I was more comfortable with the idea of not doing something rather than facing the fear of failing at it. Why did I have these fears? And why did I let them, literally, take over my life? Was it a feeling of fear that I wouldn't live up to my own expectations? Or a feeling that I wouldn't live up to others expectations? Or even, that if I failed, how would I ever succeed again? If anything, I think it was a combination of all of these things. Unfortunately, I know that I was not alone in these feelings. I think we have all felt this way at a certain point in our lives. Eventually I gave up on asking why I was feeling the way I was. Instead, I started focusing on how I wanted to feel. I started to realize that by embodying a feeling of ability and acceptance, I could change that feeling into a state of being. To be empowered, not only because of my abilities, but also because I fully accepted myself regardless of my abilities. I believe that once we all learn to accept ourselves regardless of our abilities or what we have on the outside, we will finally accept everyone else as they are too. Because the more you start to think about it, we are all the same. And we all deserve to be accepted, because well, we're pretty damn near perfect. and to me, that might be just as good. I used to always resonate with the term "perfectionist". Simply put, "someone who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection". When you think about it like that, someone who is refusing any aspect of their life cannot be perfect, can they? Also, what is this feeling of a 'perfect' ideal? How can one judge what perfect may even be? I believe that we must accept anything that happens in our life, perfect or not. Once we learn to accept not only the things that happen to ourselves, but also accept our selves as a whole, we can move past anything that would even be deemed perfect. One time I was speaking with a friend, I explained to him how I had a 'perfectionist' mentality. And he said instead of resonating with the term 'perfectionist' a better term to resonate with is 'progressionist'. Or rather, someone who is constantly striving to progress thru life, always striving for something better, but without refusal for things that didn't always quite match up. The ability to accept the things that you cannot change, and be a better you tomorrow, than you were today. So now I have an understanding, that when I wake up in the morning- it's always on the right side of the bed. For, I know that no matter what life may throw at me, I can truly accept it for what it is. And to me that's all that matters ;)
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If you are a typical American, an average day may look like this:
In total you are spending a whopping 12-14 hours sitting down! Add in the average 6-8 hours we spend sleeping each night, we are spending a total of 18-20 hours sitting or laying down! The human body is not designed to spend such an extended amount of time sitting. There are numerous risks to spending all day sitting on our rumps, here are just a few:
If you work in an office, how do you add more movement into your day? What strategies do you utilize to prevent sitting constantly for 8 hours? Let me know by replying below! |
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