I don’t know about you, but I want my output on social media to be nearly flawless. While I often rail about the foolishness of a curated view of life I can fall under the spell of perfection too. I often find myself waiting for the perfect time to begin a blog, clean out my closet, or watch that documentary everyone is talking about. But somehow, that time doesn’t seem to pop up or I find a million reasons to disqualify the timing. Or worse, I procrastinate so long that the opportunity or goal is long gone by the time I start taking action.
Ugghhh, you would think I would know better by now, yet it is a lesson I find myself needing to learn over and over again. It’s so much more fun to buy all the new fancy tools and dream about my project than it is to sit down and do the actual work. The wackiest part is that I actually enjoy the work and that my satisfaction comes with the doing and rarely with the done. I can accept the fact that projects don’t always go as planned and that mistakes, sometimes awfully embarrassing mistakes, will happen, and that I will still be OK.
So, it is time to begin again - where I am and with what I have. Of course, I have been tempted to “start fresh in the new year” or wait until the dumpster fire called 2020 is out. Instead, I have decided to be a diamond with a flaw - or maybe simply a perfectly imperfect human. I hope you join me on this adventure.
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” - Confucius