Putting Perfection to Bed

Because a curated life is effin' BS.

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." 

— John Steinbeck

The pursuit of perfection is the perpetuation of a wound of inadequacy.

This is often the way we motivate ourselves to create, grow, and achieve incredible things. But wounds are exhausting, and the fuel by which they energize us has limits because the belief operating under the wound is limiting itself... ie. "I am only worthy if/when" — and that destination is one that never arrives because if we arrive at the destination, we have to let go of the belief that we're not enough and let go of what we use for creative energy.⁠
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What I invite from you is to explore operating from worthiness. What would it mean for you to live as if you REALLY loved yourself? What choices would you make in people, habits and behaviours if you were enough, now?⁠
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Orient your life around YOURSELF, not your wound. (This is a BIG shift.)⁠
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When you stop chasing worthiness, you'll be invited to sit in the grief that you bought into a story that someone else told you about you or a story you wrote about yourself because of your childhood and its circumstances. You made the failures of your environment mean you were/are a failure. But your environment is not indicative of your worth. The capacity you have to show up for yourself and choose life, possibility and boundaries will give you EVERYTHING you've pursued in the approval of another (which they can take away.)

Your worth depends on YOU. Full stop.⁠

Let's keep healing in this journey called life and put perfection to bed so we can show up fully as we are. Imperfections and all... because curated feeds and a curated life are effin BS. And we have an algorithm that feeds off of this BS.

Much love,

Mark