Lots of double blog days this week as I elaborate on the Super Bowl as well as my own life.
I watched a another motivational Monday message on Facebook today. Shoutout to Vanessa for putting these out every week.
Today I’ll be talking perfection and how it has impacted my life in the past. These days I don’t worry about being perfect but in my 20s it was a big issue along with the comparison trap that I talked about last week.
Perfection kept me from having a great college experience. It wasn’t so much an issue at Hiram G. Andrews Center or the community college as it was at Slippery Rock. Maybe it was because of my major and I thought getting good grades would get me more job leads. I looked back on it on years and wondered what I could have done different. I even considered returning to school with a different major.
Perfection kept me from having work. That summer of 2006 I was turning down jobs because I wanted that perfect ideal job. It was the worst summer of my life. It started to get old with my parents and pretty soon I was going to have to take what I could get. By the middle of August, I was applying everywhere. Eventually I ended up at Kings Family Restaurant in Delmont.
Perfection is a trap because even if you find the perfect outfit or have the perfect body, you will find flaws. You will also find something that’s better than what you have because what you have is not “perfect” enough.
No job will be perfect. You have to make it perfect on your own and learn to like it. I’ve made my own job like that and it’s come in handy with all the traveling I do going around to Toastmasters events and conferences. I have that leverage thanks to working at WIS
I’ll close this blog out with a Slippery Rock shoutout. It looks like the work on the north end of campus is really beginning to come together. The Performing Arts 🎭 Center is looking nice and the construction 🚧 on East and West Gym is getting done. I’ll have to check it out this Spring when I make my visit (one of two along with Homecoming). Here’s pictures from the Facebook page.
Have a great night. Remember, live your best life. Be your best you. ROCK out because you are worth it. Laugh 🤭 too because laughter is the best medicine.
Bye everyone. ❤️ you.
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