Imperfection is a gift. It releases us from the need to be perfect and have everything in place. It gives us the space to breathe and move and be and create. Think of all the things that you love. What if perfectionism froze the creatives and prevented them from creating. Brene Brown’s book “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go Of Who You Think You’re Supposed To Be and Embrace Who You Are” is a treasure chest full of wisdom. Brene Brown reminds me that imperfection opens us up to possibilities.
In my mind, when Perfection has everyone frozen in the game of Freeze, imperfection is the one running around tagging and unfreezing everyone. Brene Brown also shares that perfectionism is a twenty ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us, when in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from taking flight. Perfectionism is too heavy to move, yet too empty to unpack.
Hello, my name is Sheila and I am a recovering perfectionist with occasional relapses. But I remember some of my most beautiful moments were created when plans were carried out, I’m talking beautiful, authentic, printing mistakes, being scared out of mind, taking the leap, doing the dang thing, asking the question, making myself completely vulnerable. Imperfect projects were created and blog were written and published …… just like what I am doing right now. This blog was flawlessly planned in my head, but the value increased when I took the time to write and post …imperfections and all. Thank you for being part of my conversation with myself.
When you step out and do the thing, there is alignment and confirmation in the most interesting ways. When I wrote this piece in my head and perfectionism almost kept it there. But then moments happen like this. You randomly open up a gift journal from a friend and you see this …
