Day 191 - A Year to Clear - Being With Imperfection

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Lesson 191: Being With Imperfection

It’s important to note that we all have both negative and positive thoughts as well as traits. Traits are tricky because it’s really based on perception – in my opinion. We have high emotional days and next minute it can be low. I wouldn’t say we are always in happy states all the time. Today we are to be with our imperfections. To me, this means taking on those not so good thoughts and understanding that they don’t necessarily make us the person we are.

So today, I had some shitty things happen at work. My imperfect thoughts were that of anger and I felt like management could do a better job essentially. Thoughts circulated around like “gawd some of these decisions suck” “why do I work here?” “who makes these decisions?” “they don’t really care about us”… it goes on and on. At the time, I didn’t really think in a spacious way. This whole course always talks about facing the weather that comes, but applying awareness as to why you have that thought, and how you can turn it around. Let’s just say I did not apply awareness at all. I just wanted to be angry. The point is, we aren’t always going to be perfect…. And that’s okay! It’s this acceptance we need to make about ourselves that we have imperfections and to not be so hard on ourselves. We all make mistakes and it’s about learning. My lesson today was that sure I was angry, but was there another response I could have taken? I definitely could have taken a better approach and I’m aware of that. I can learn from this situation.

What was an imperfect action you had today?