I am perfect! Or maybe not?! There are things I do that I should not do, there are things I consume that I should not consume and there are things I say, that I should not say. Yes, that’s me! There is a yin in every yang. Like I tell my clients; nobody can be one hundred percent, one hundred percent of the time. Trying to be perfect all the time is actually a pretty solid recipe for failure. It makes more sense to find a balance you can live with, and a balance you are proud of, and can feel good about. Then all you have to do is stick with your own definition of the perfectly balanced YOU!

I tend to go by what I call the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I am at my best behavior and then I have the flexibility to allow myself 20 percent indulgence. If I eat 80% healthy 80% of the time, I feel great. If no more than 20% of my consumption is indulgence like coffee, toast and chocolate, I feel content and not deprived of anything. Every now and then I like to up my antics when it comes to my diet, health and lifestyle, and raise the bar to 90/10, and occasionally to 100%. One hundred percent is what is required if you get on a detox program, which is great for your health yet only realistic as a lifestyle change when it is a shorter term commitment, and you can see a light at the end of that tunnel:)

When at work, I am content with being 80 percent productive and 20 percent indulgent. It makes work so much more fun when I also create time to goof off on the internet, read the news, do research, take a break with a book, call a friend and listen to music. Then again, these are also some of the wonderful perks I get from working for myself. Plus, the 20% indulgence time is actually what provides me with much of the inspiration I receive for wanting to create something so it makes the 80% productive time, even more productive. For me, 80/20 is a good balance. It is actually so good, that it is pretty much perfect!

So let’s talk about this notion of perfection. Who decided what constitutes the idea of being perfect? Who made the rule that you have to be 100% all of the time? I mean, isn’t it YOU that ends up making the rules for YOUR life! People, who are obsessed with being perfect, suffer, because they repeatedly tell themselves that they are not good enough. So who created the standards that you go by? Was it your parents, your friends, family members, society, and popular culture? Do you feel like you’ve repeatedly received the message that you are not good enough!? The constant strive to please others will most definitely end up giving you that message.

It is perhaps time for you to contemplate where your thoughts are coming from, and where and how the filter from which you view the world was created? Because when you think about it, you may be living in an old story of what perfection really is. You may very well realize that you are indeed perfect just the way you are. You are the only YOU there is so that alone makes you perfect at being YOU!

“You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best YOU in existence!” -Zig Ziglar

“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.” ~Unknown

So, as far as I’m concerned, I am perfect! At least I am perfect at being ME!