In working with women every day, I know one of the things that often holds us back from attempting new things or making changes or doing something we haven’t done in a long time – the biggest thing that often holds us back – is fear. Fear of failure. Fear of judgment. And fear of […]
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Perfection And Success Are Not The Same Thing
About six weeks ago I purchased a 12-week online strength training program. I bought it for a couple of different reasons. The first is that I continue to struggle with strength training consistently. At fifty years old, I am fifteen years into the stage of life where I am losing muscle unless I do something […]
Do You Suffer From Perfection Paralysis?
Can we talk for a minute about this belief (or delusion?) that so many of us moms have that we should be doing things perfectly or we shouldn’t do them at all? Where does this come from? Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we fail to start things (or not even attempt […]
Perfection Is Unattainable. And Stupid. So Stop Trying To Achieve It.
The other day I was talking with a friend who is a bit of a perfectionist. Actually, she’s a raging perfectionist. She would openly admit this. And we were talking about how life is such a challenge sometimes. I was reminded of this picture I recently saw on a friend’s Facebook page: We went back […]
Maybe a before and after picture isn’t the problem. Instead, maybe the problem is what you focus on in those pictures.
mid·dle age noun 1. the period between early adulthood and old age, usually considered as the years from about 45 to 65 AT 46-years-old, I suppose you could say I’m middle-aged. Middle aged? What the fuck? How the hell did this happen? Falling into the middle aged category always seemed so far away. When I […]