Allow Yourself To Not Be Perfect

It’s OK to not be perfect.  Scary thought for many of us, especially moms who want to do the best for their children, bloggers who set themselves up for goals that are unrealistic and women in general who expect to be employee, wife, mother, volunteer, fill in the blank, of the year.

I’ve been there, done that. Even while getting prepared for the Type A Mom Conference that I’m at now, I put before me expectations that were impossible to achieve. In the matter of 3 days, I expected to write this blog post before I left home….along with other posts that had deadlines, taking my daughter back and forth to school and to a doctor’s appointment, attending a meeting at her school, getting clothing ready for a consignment sale, packing and helping my mother with some chores. Did I get it all done? What do you think? If I did, I would have been up all day and night and probably sick before I even arrived at the conference.

Thank goodness that I’m learning to underpromise and overachieve. I didn’t tell anyone that all of the above would get done. That was my private To Do list. So when it didn’t happen, no one knew it except me and now all of you, but it’s fine. I’m one person with many things I need to do and many things I want to do. You can learn this and more through the Inner Mean Girl Reform School.

I didn’t use all of my energy stressing over what wasn’t done when I arrived in Asheville for the conference. Instead, I’m totally enjoying myself at Type A Mom. I’m attending the sessions I want and getting so much out of them. I missed one session because I needed a rest. I got some of my blog posts done when I could fit them in. And most importantly I’m not giving into that Inner Mean Girl, Edna, who wants to push me to do too much. Her voice is getting much lower as she tries to tell me that I need to be Perfect because I’m not listening anymore.

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