#452 –Where's your line between perfection and commitment?

Committing to your talents is one thing. Becoming precious and perfectionist about them is another. Where the former tends to your True Self, the latter marches at your Ego’s command.

The last few days have been hectic: work, the newsletter, editing the fourt Unfolding Your Mind book, building the Udemy course, plus doctors’ appointments, UA meetings, grocery runs, cooking, running, morning pages, meditating, weight-lifting.

I was tempted in two directions:

a) spiral into workaholism and over-achieving perfectionism, or

b) spiral into depression and hands-in-the-air I-can’t, leaving everything undone.

It was, of course, my Ghost of Exertion/Exhaustion texting me snapshots from my mind—while the Ghost of Misplaced Shame photobombed (you know what happens if you skip the newsletter one day).

Both options were equally destructive. I needed a third way.

So I paused, relaxed, and asked myself: What is the most important thing for me right now?

The answer was clear: generating income, while keeping my body and mind healthy.

The income part is simple: work at least 30 hours a week. For mind and body, it’s trickier. That’s where I risk becoming precious—telling myself, either I do everything perfectly, or it’s worthless.

That’s where the real work is.

Next question: What’s the minimum viable action to sustain my health right now?

My answer: keep writing daily (one outlet is enough), exercise, eat, and sleep well. The rest—only when time permits.

For that, time tracking helps.

What are you protecting when you refuse to do something imperfectly?

Love,

Carolina