Ironically this holiday season, I’ve been thinking a bit about a time in my life when I lost all sense of celebration. In seventh grade, I attempted to take my own life. My hard times had begun some years earlier, during the summer following fifth...
One of the absolute toughest questions I’ve had the opportunity to answer is, “Should I try to live my life perfectly, or endeavor to live my life by doing my imperfect best?” Living my life perfectly has huge appeal because it would mean that I wouldn’t have to...
I had the profound honor of interviewing musician Jennifer Leeds about her approach to music, her struggles with perfectionism, and what it means to do her Imperfect Best. Jennifer heard about my Imperfect Best concept from a mutual friend and was inspired to...
Have you, like me, found a painful amount of truth to the saying, “We are our own worst critic?” I have come to define this “worst critic” part of myself as The Perfectionist Voice. As I imagine most of us do, I hear this Perfectionist Voice countless times each and...
Why I say to DO your imperfect best instead of BE your imperfect best A few months ago a wonderful friend asked me “why not say, “Be Your Imperfect Best.” It’s a wonderful question because I’m growing to love the “being” part of life more and more. I practice...
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