I Don’t Have to be Perfect

Jan 5, 2012 by mandeewidrick

It’s 2012 (wooo!) and I’m beginning to think about the things I’d like to accomplish in the year ahead. What this also means is that I’m taking a look at 2011 and how I can do a few things better. So this afternoon, I shut down my computer for a while, and picked up a book that I feel is quite fitting for how I was feeling today.

I found myself in a bit of a frustrated mood this afternoon prior to the Great Laptop Shutdown (which lasted probably an hour). Oddly enough, it’s a mood that has seemed to be a fairly common theme for me over the past few months. It’s that feeling of, “I have all of these good skills to put to good use, but what do I REALLY want to do with them? Am I using them correctly? Am I wasting time? Why the heck am I not where I want to be professionally?”

When I get in these moods, the best thing I can do is to stop what I’m working on and take a breath, then find something that calms me and makes me feel like I’ve overcome that attitude. Later, I will usually revisit such thoughts with a fresh look. So when I picked up and read Jon Acuff’s book, Quitter, this afternoon, I was soon relieved by new perspective after finding this quote on page 62…