Is imperfect

I found this link on my uncle's blog. I've listened to it 3 times. I've read it twice.

The question I keep asking myself is: Do I have the courage to be imperfect?


Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability | Video on TED.com

A few years ago I had  principal I was working for who told me something that has truly changed my life.  We were having a discussion about work and I, most likely, began listing all of the things that I was NOT doing well.  I have the tendency to be kind of hard on myself.  I wanted to be perfect (lets be real, I still want to be perfect).  Anyway, in the course of our conversation he said to me:  Amber you are not a perfectionist.  You are an imperfectionist.  All you see are the things you do that are imperfect."

True.

And hard to hear.

 He was right.  I wasn't seeing anything perfect about my life, talents, abilities or world.  All I saw was in myself was imperfection.  I would like to think of myself as a generally optimistic person, but he brought to my attention how harshly I was treating myself.  Not good.

So, this is something I have been working on for quite a while now -- it is still a work in progress.

Today I came across this quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell:  "Truly converted disciples, though still imperfect, will pursue “the life of the soul” on any day, in any decade, amid any decadence and destruction."

I don't have to be perfect, all I have to do is pursue the life of the soul (D&C 101:37).

So, that is my goal during the month of May (and the remainder of April).  Rather than be so worried about things that are of little consequence. . . . I am going to try really hard to follow the counsel of the scriptures and Elder Maxwell to pursue "the life of the soul"

I think it is going to make a big difference.