Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Is the desire to be perfect keeping us from being our best? Are mistakes okay? Trial and error is how healthy people learn. However, our expectation of perfection when we make a first attempt keeps us frustrated, or maybe we are too fearful of failure to even start. We waste so much living wanting to be perfect that we fear to try anything new.
Because we suffer from the need to be perfect, we judge other people harshly too. Perfection quickly becomes the bane of our existence. Fortunately, we can ask our Higher Power and the friends in our groups to help us accept ourselves as less than perfect human beings. We’ll be able to do this with greater ease when we learn to accept others as they are.
I will be good enough at every activity today if I simply do the best I can.
Hazelden Foundation
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