Perfectionism…..

Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one less traveled and that has made all the difference…

Robert Frost

My favorite poem of Frost. Always, it seems anyway, I have taken the less traveled road. When I attempt the more traveled…the caged lioness appears without warning. Not being sure when she will rear her head I do know with absolute certainty…she will!!

As I’m sitting here on my wonderfully cool breezy dock this evening…I finally can practice what I earnestly preach…just be…breathe…

A particularly stress filled day of running endlessly and without much success in what needed to be accomplished…I shared with my business partner just in the last hour how horribly frustrated I was…frustrated is not exactly where I was..my comment I made Godzilla look like a gecko..was more on point. Nobody seemed to be doing what they needed to be doing today…everywhere I turned the ball was dropped…leaving me in a seriously agitated state.

Perfection…that dastardly word…yet my lot in life…reared it’s ugly head. Drivers pulling out in front of me without a glance, clients running me ragged without follow through, vendors not doing their jobs…stores with messed up inventory on their sites causing needless hours of driving…it was endless. By the time I arrived home I was in such a state I could barely breathe. Thank heavens my business partner has a calm head and just dealt with my barrage of spewing explicatives.

Out to the dock I came, feeling like the most misput, misunderstood person on the planet…honestly speaking…I was pissed off at the world and everyone all around me was to blame!!! How’s that for my Zen/Namaste points???🙄

Then…the water lapping…the cool breeze…the fading sunlight…summer evening sounds with my gentle cooing doves…ahhhh yes…my own words…just be…breathe…. (A bit of wine thrown in for good measure 😉) that road less traveled suddenly made sense again…

Perfectionism has no room in creativity…calm…that zen place of really breathing…

Yes tonight I will pick up my brushes and paint but not with urgency or perfectionism as the goal but to breathe into my God given creative being…

For this moment I will take a few more moments out to indeed breathe on my road less traveled. Perfection in this sky definitely…perfection in me..not needed….

This journey of life wasn’t meant to be perfect but just ours…on our own roads…whether heavily traveled or the winding path through the woods…it is ours alone to choose…to decide…to live ❤️❤️❤️

But you be the chooser not the chooseee!!!🫢