Heidi Rae Coaching - Simultaneously

Babes!!

This is basically the point.

We are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously. I'd like to suggest that we are expected to be both, or at least to see ourselves as both. We were born masterpieces. Every day of our lives is a work in progress.

A work in progress literally means partially completed; still in the production process. At the beginning of every baseball season my dad coached, he would tell his team, "Practice makes permanent." It wasn't until I was much older that I would hear the familiar, "Practice makes perfect." I quite like the permanent quote, actually.

I go back to that hospital. I go back to the day when I took my first steps. I had been practicing standing up with my abdominal muscles, and the strength I still had on my right side. On this day, I was absolutely determined to take a step. Before I did, the physical therapists ran to my room to grab Rand. As he walked into the therapy gym, he witnessed me take my first step. Then I took another. And another. As two therapists were on each side of the bars and another was immediately behind me with my wheelchair in case I fell, I took four steps. Then I heard cheering behind me. When I was turned around to face the crowd that had formed in that therapy gym, I saw my hospital neighbors. Most were in wheelchairs, paralyzed like me. Two were standing. All were cheering for me. In their minds, they were far from masterpieces. In their minds, they were broken. In my mind, they were the most inspiring masterpieces I had ever witnessed.

I beg you, please do not wait until you feel like a masterpiece to inspire others. Please recognize your worth now. Whether you know it or not, you are absolutely inspiring people today.

XOXOXO