Tag: perfect

‘What’s Really Holding You Back?’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘Which of your ideas are stuck in your head, going nowhere? What’s really holding you back? Where is fear of failure rearing its head? And what is the first imperfect step you can atake to make your big, unwieldly idea into a you-sized reality?’- Jenna Kutcher

Yes, ‘What’s really holding you back?’ Why are you not going after your dreams? Or are you waiting for the perfect time? If you are waiting for the perfect time to come, guess what, it will never come. Why is that? Because there is no perfect time to live your life.

You live your life every day. So do not let anything stand between you and your dreams. Whatever you want to do, wherever you want to go, start now. Do not wait for anyone. Because you are responsible for your life. You are responsible for your growth. And you are responsible for your future.

You can do anything. Just cultivate the courage to go ahead and do it. You have what it take to create your own life, your own world. No one is holding you back. The only person standing between you and your dreams is you.

So why not do it for you?

Give Up On Being Perfect

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Give up on being perfect. Here is why:

‘… Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great, ever came out of imitations. What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.’

If you want to become the person you were created to be, you must give up on being perfect.

‘The perfect student can never step outside the safe box of the right answer, can never take a flyer on the honorable failure that may be more compelling than the safe paper that gets an A.

What perfection requires is a kind of lockstep. Look at that word; imagine it in your mind’s eye, the focused match of the fearful, the physical opposite of the skip and the jump. Doesn’t it sound like something to avoid at all costs?’

‘Perfection is static, even boring.’

‘Pursuing perfection makes you unforgiving of the faults of others.’

Source: Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect