Perhaps how you like to be in-human is to
seek perfectionism. Any perfectionists
reading this? Am I talking your
language?
Nothing is quite good enough. If you're not plumping cushions, you're
endlessly fussing with a piece of work you should have let go of days ago and
life would be great if only you didn't see the glaring errors in everything
and everyone.
Your medicine? Try this - what would it mean to aim for good
enough? What is the fear behind life not
being perfect? What would really happen
if you let go more often?
Another way to give yourself a good
thrashing is to start to compare yourself to others. Ever done that? You were doing OK with life until you saw X
get that promotion/bigger house/better qualification/slimmer figure/better
looking partner - now you feel reduced. Suddenly what you have is not enough. It's a way of instantly minimizing yourself
and your achievements without the aid of Weight Watchers.
Your medicine - Take this as often as you
can remember - repeat regularly - "I am enough. Who I am is MORE than enough -
I have everything I need within me to have the life I desire"
Feeling any better? Choice some would say is a good thing. But for many it's a sort of psychic Superglue
sticking them to the spot. Too many
choices, just one life and whatever direction you look in the grass is always
greener.
Should you backpack to the Galapagos Isles
and re-habilitate the much misunderstood Komodo dragons in a 12 step programme,
finish your PhD, aim for the next step on the corporate career ladder or start
your own business? Why do you have to choose when you want to do it all? Oh and
you also want have a baby, run the marathon and get your own home and cram it all
in before you're 32.
Stuck in analysis paralysis you want to do
it all but when, what and how? What if you
make the wrong choice and it wasn't what you wanted anyway?

Here's a little map - Start small and have
a plan. Don't try and do everything at
once. Ask yourself what you might be
running away from and aim to make responsibility a goal. Remember you can be an adult but you don't
have to be a grown up.
New season, new beginnings. I embrace September as a time when I get
slimmer and richer. I am able to devote some "me" time to do my daily runs and
I'm not peeling off tenners every day for my hungry chicks; all this is
possible when my children return to school. I can devote myself to helping
others achieve the lives they'd always dreamed for themselves and really do the
things I thought I would do all summer if hedonism, sheer idleness and
relaxation hadn't got in the way.
What are you planning to do with your life
this month?
Why not book a 30 minute free coaching
session on me?
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caroleann@realcoachingco.com