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There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to do your best.

But what happens when wanting to do your best keeps you from living your best life?

Have you ever had a project that you wanted to start – you had really great ideas – and great hopes of what the finished project would look like – and then you started thinking about how this is going to be the best project that you’ve ever worked on – no one will have ever seen such a project before – and your mind starts swirling with all of this pressure that you’ve just put on yourself to make it such a great project – and you immediately get overwhelmed and just need to step back from it – just for a little bit – and then months go by and you remember that you had a great idea for a project that you never started

(and definitely didn’t complete)?

Sound at all familiar?

Perfectionism can be really amazing – it can push you forward and keep your standards very high. It can make sure you’re living your life to your best potential.

But… it can also be a saboteur in your life. It can keep you from finishing projects, which can do a real number on your self esteem.

Many of us are recovering perfectionists. We strive for the best of ourselves. We push and push and often achieve the best. But at what cost? And who really cares?

And when do we say enough is enough?

Let this be our mantra:

I AM not perfect
nor will I ever be.
I am a work in progress,
and that is definitely
GOOD ENOUGH.

Let it sink into every cell of your being – the message is that important.

Are there any areas in your life where you push yourself a bit too hard?

Are there any projects that need to be finished that you’ve set aside because you felt overwhelmed?

Which would you rather have – lots of completed, “good enough” projects or lots of uncompleted “perfect” projects?

I am a recovering perfectionist, and I’m learning that good enough is a really great thing.

🙂

Do you ever have one of those days where from the moment you wake up you feel that you are being pulled in several different directions, you have more things to do than hours in the day to do them, and you just want to go back to bed, pull the covers over your head, and try it again the next day?

Today is one of those days for me.

Our mantra has always been, “There is no such thing as a journal emergency.”

We both have the tendency to lose perspective of this at times and get caught up in the whirl and spin of orders needing to ship, journals needing to be made, and our customers needing to be put first.

When this happens, our breathing is shallow, our bodies are tight,
and our minds get stuck in the chaos.

And then we remember our mantra – we remember why we started our company – we remember that we choose to live the positive and reflective messages that we are putting into the world – we remember that everything happens in the exact right time.

We remember that we are human.

And so are you.

If you are feeling at all overwhelmed and stressed and wonder how you will ever get it all done – take a moment today and just breathe. Take a moment and sit with yourself. Remember that you are only given what you can handle. You are only one person and you do everything in the perfect way at the perfect time.

Take a deep breath. And then another one.

And then mindfully go through each task one by one.

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