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I heard a phrase the other day on my favorite podcast that felt like it was sent down from heaven: "Do something badly."
"What the heck does that mean?", you might say ...
It means that you should give yourself total permission to do "that thing" that you always want to do but that you never do because you're afraid you'll be bad at it. So, do it anyway. Badly.
It means that you don't have to be good at yoga. You can do it badly.
It means that you don't have to be a great cook. You can do it badly.
It means that you don't have to meditate as if you were the second coming of Deepak Chopra. Do it badly.
It means that you don't have to stress about the fact that you haven't written a blog post in two months because you just can't think of the perfect thing to say. (Ahem). You can do it badly.
Giving ourselves permission to do something badly means that we can get off of the hamster wheel of feeling like we have to be perfect at everything.
Life is not a Pinterest competition. There is so much beauty in imperfection.
Do tell ... what are YOU going to do badly this week?