“I need to stop trying to become perfect and just try to become better.”  ~ Sasha Cohen, U.S. figure skater

Good Morning!

Sasha sates one of those universal truths that we would all be wise to adapt.  When I was teaching my Goal Class, I was amazed at how many people set their daily goals like this:

Drink eight glasses of water, seven days a week.

Work out seven days a week.

These goal setters were chasing perfection.  But perfection doesn’t exist in reality.  When we strive for perfection over improvement, we end up frustrated, and often abandon our goals altogether.  Why?  Because they aren’t attainable.

Why don’t more people go stand on a ledge and jump off to see if they can fly?  Because they know they can’t – it’s not possible.  Perfection is equally impossible and insane.  Chasing perfection is one of the shortest paths to living on a treadmill of incompleteness.

Your Turn:  Where in your life have you been chasing perfection instead of improvement?  Take the weight off your shoulders and cast perfection aside.  Instead, challenge yourself to daily improvement.

Today’s Affirmation:  Each day I am getting better and better.