{"id":5962,"date":"2012-07-30T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2012-07-30T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:35:05","slug":"the-perfection-of-imperfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/the-perfection-of-imperfection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfection of Imperfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barkbud\/4613587635\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5977\" title=\"Imperfection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Imperfection.png\" alt=\"Imperfection\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Imperfection.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Imperfection-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What if my imperfections were my road map for growth and becoming more perfectly, joyfully me? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What if embracing and supporting my imperfections could lead me to spaces I&#8217;ve never been before?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not perfect. And I desire to feel totally happy letting the external world know this truth. No matter the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, I am aware that I am imperfect, but I hold a hesitancy to accept this truth. I waste my valuable energy <em>trying<\/em> to resist this truth internally, and <em>trying<\/em> to portray otherwise to the external world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been choosing to support the collective lie that perfection is a true ideal and I have allowed this choice to weigh on me. I diminish myself with this &#8216;perfect&#8217; story, and diminish my world by continuing with a story I don&#8217;t truly believe in.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder I feel tortured and confused in my relationship with imperfection, dancing between ignoring her existence and engulfing myself in her.<\/p>\n<p>But what if I chose to walk the line with my imperfection instead, and celebrated the perfection of my imperfections?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What if I gently embraced my imperfections, and had faith in my own ability to transform them into something beautiful? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What if I believed that in working with my less than perfect qualities I am better able to discover the perfection in me?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"Bark: photo credit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barkbud\/4613587635\/\">bark<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barkbud\/4613587635\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5977\" title=\"Imperfection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Imperfection.png\" alt=\"Imperfection\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Imperfection.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Imperfection-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What if my imperfections were my road map for growth and becoming more perfectly, joyfully me? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What if embracing and supporting my imperfections could lead me to spaces I&#8217;ve never been before?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not perfect. And I desire to feel totally happy letting the external world know this truth. No matter the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, I am aware that I am imperfect, but I hold a hesitancy to accept this truth. I waste my valuable energy <em>trying<\/em> to resist this truth internally, and <em>trying<\/em> to portray otherwise to the external world.<\/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":[6],"tags":[82,81,83,84,80],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","tag-acceptance","tag-imperfection","tag-joy","tag-peace","tag-perfection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962","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=5962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}