Heidi Rae Coaching - Success is Not Perfection

Babes!!!

I started an accountability program last week. Hear me out before you judge me! I was always a big girl when I was younger. Then I had four babies in four years and gained 70 pounds with each and every one of them. Literally. In 2010, I had developed an eating disorder which I didn't even realize I had. I was a single mama, trying to keep my children alive and just completely stopped taking care of myself physically (although looking back, I'm not sure I really ever took care of myself). I was admitted to the hospital, weighing 103 pounds. I would not be discharged until I was at 120 pounds. I maintained that weight for over a decade.

Over the last year, or so, I've gained about 18 pounds. Before you roll your eyes or tell me that I'm not fat or tell me that 18 pounds is nothing... it IS something to me because I feel less healthy. I have tried different things: intermittent fasting which I did before, changing my eating habits, etc. Nothing worked. Finally, I paid for a program that is on my phone which makes me accountable for my eating, my movement, my water intake, my mood, my sleep, and it educates me on things like my age, my hormones, my health issues and how this all effects my weight, etc. I am loving it because I am accountable to MYSELF and it gives me that opportunity to SELF-validate!

Anywho, one of the lessons from last week had this quote: "You don't have to be perfect in order to be successful."

I am just obsessed with this quote! When my dad coached baseball, he always said, "Practice does not make perfect; it makes permanent." I always thought that was so weird... now I see how true it is! The lesson went on to say that perfect takes away any chance of action. If we are perfect at something, there is no longer any need for action! We are successful at things hundreds of times a day! I was successful this morning at getting out of bed. (as someone who had a stroke and was completely paralyzed on the left side - that is no small feat!) I was successful at washing my hair, putting makeup on, getting dressed, making my lunch, driving to work, being to work on time, etc. However, my hair does not look perfect. My makeup is never perfect. I went over the speed limit on my way to work - not perfect. You get the picture. I WAS successful, but not perfect. And success is rad!

Striving for perfection discredits our successes! Read that one again. Perfection causes us to lose out, or completely ignore, opportunities. It also causes us to strive for something that we are not even supposed to achieve in this life, so let's calm ourselves down and celebrate every single dang success!!

I'm totally rooting for you!

XOXOXOXO