{"id":4871,"date":"2011-04-12T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2021-02-09T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:04:55","slug":"how-will-i-know-when-i-get-to-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2011\/04\/12\/how-will-i-know-when-i-get-to-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will I Know When I Get to Perfect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4873\" title=\"Perfection Not\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Perfection_Not.jpg\" alt=\"Perfection Not\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Perfection_Not.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Perfection_Not-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trying to be good enough for Them, I&#8217;ve created an image of perfection that I do not fit. Seeing the truth of not being perfect, I reject myself.<\/p>\n<p>Getting older, I see that &#8220;perfect&#8221; is no longer about being good enough for Them &#8212; it&#8217;s about <strong>being good enough for my Self<\/strong>. I can&#8217;t seem to forgive myself for not being what I believe I should be. As defined by Me, and helped shaped by Them.<\/p>\n<p>And this &#8220;perfect&#8221; I seek, if I was asked to describe it, I couldn&#8217;t. So, how will I know when I get there?<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit:<\/em><strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/ritman\/\">Martin Neuhof<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4873\" title=\"Perfection Not\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Perfection_Not.jpg\" alt=\"Perfection Not\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Perfection_Not.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Perfection_Not-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trying to be good enough for Them, I&#8217;ve created an image of perfection, that<strong> I do not fit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not being perfect, I reject myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Getting older, I see that perfect is no longer about being good enough for Them &#8212; it&#8217;s about <strong>being good enough for my Self<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}