Is the life you are living perfect for you?

Sohan Nicole

What is your definition of perfection? Are you perfect? Why or why not?

The only detail that makes you less perfect is you thinking that you are not perfect. Confusing huh?

I have taken the liberty of looking up this word which bounces around everyones mouths each day, and I have found that we have such a misleading definition of it. As it turns out being perfect is achieving the maximum expression of you. It’s time to unlearn some of our views, so get ready.

PERFECTION:

• “The highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence.”

• “A perfect embodiment of something.”

• “A quality, trait or feature of the highest degree.”

• “The highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait.”

If we read all of these definitions carefully, putting aside our pre established notions we can easily see there is no exact definition. They all mention the highest expression of something. Who is to say what that something is?

What if we chose to view this something as ourselves? If we use all our talents and skills to a maximum expression we are being our perfect version of ourselves. If we embody and act as our truest selves we are being perfect. Using our unique qualities and talents sets us automatically down the road to perfection.

Did you notice that a sense of other people is nowhere to be found in these definitions? Not one of them mention perfection viewed through anothers eyes, because our perfections are within us. We are already perfect! The moment we start to perceive perfection how any other person perceives it, is the exact moment we fail at being perfect. Thus, we become our biggest critics.

Isn’t it crazy how we spend most of our lives trying to achieve someone else’s perfection? We think of perfection as something big and impossible to do but really it’s as easy as being true to yourself! To your desires, to your talents, to your happiness. From this moment on, I encourage you to work towards achieving your highest level of proficiency.

You are what you think.

Sohan Nicole

We have all heard the frase “you are what you eat” and it is undeniably true. We feel a certain way depending on what we feed our body. Our minds are just the same. The thoughts we feed our mind will determine our emotions which will determine our actions. Up until now, I have mentioned and explored society’s perspectives, how they may view the world, and even you and me. Now it’s time to talk about your perspective of you.

What we think about ourselves is crucial to our personal development. The depth of this relationship with you is what will help your life fall into place. Think of it as any other interpersonal realtionship. Our perceptions of the people around us are what bring us closer, or further. In order to lead ourselves closer to our desires, and goals we must figure out what we want out of this life and how we can obtain it.  The talents we posses, the knowledge we have to share, our ideals, beliefs and disbeliefs are some of the elements that will help us get on track.

Not only is understanding all this information important but also accepting all that comes with it. Becoming aware of the gifts we have been given to better this world and practicing them, may seem imposible in a society as limiting as ours. Have you ever felt like you have a special way, which comes easy and naturally to you, of doing something? And even though you are aware of it you continue searching in other places, professions, schools, and other extra-curricular activities for something you have always had within you.

 After many years of trying and failing at many things I thought were “ right for me” I found nothing is either too black nor too white. There is never one way of doing anything, contrary to what society dictates. Take college for example. Who and what assures us that a degree or a certain title will get us the life we want? Is that really the only way? IN A WORLD SO DIVERSE? How could there only be ONE possibility to achieve our dreams? There is no one road, no rules, no limits! Let’s start viewing the world as limitless rather than a place where there must be a condition or requirement always.

Is it too late?

Sohan Nicole

It seems we are always talking about time. “I need more time”, “Time goes by so fast”, “I have too much free time”.… Apparently time is either in excess or non existent. But, is it really? Or is it just that we haven’t mastered how to use our time correctly? Some moments we get so bored with all the time we have on our hands and other days an hour goes by in the blink of an eye without us even noticing it!

But that’s it exactly, we don’t acknowledge the time we have. We constantly complain how little time a day we have, but we also waste so much of it. Our free days from work all we want to do is lie in bed, we have all day so why not? “I’ll just stay one little hour watching Netflix, then I will continue with all the tasks I have put on hold.” Suddenly its the afternoon and you haven’t done anything. “Let me just eat something before I get to work.” And then three more hours magically go by. Before you know it, it’s time to get to bed again for the next working day ahed! “No biggie I have another free day coming up.” Just like that we end up in a terrible time loop, going on forever. Until one day we wake up, and we realize we have settled for this stupid job where all your work goes unacknowledged. An unfair pay for all the work you do. But we can’t leave can’t we? We don’t have anything else because we never worked towards it!

Even if our job isn’t horrible and we are comfortable with it, there is always more we would like to do with our lives. Because we came to this world with a bigger purpose than working for other people.

All the dreams, goals, and ideas we want to create depend completely on us. Not on our titles, not on how much money we have, not on how much time we have weekly, not other people. We have no one else to blame but ourselves if have a huge project we want so badly and it hasn’t happened yet. I promise you, time exists and there is lots of it! We just love wasting it and then complaining about it.

We were not brought into existence to be unhappy, to be enslaved, to conform with less, to let our gifts and abilities die with us. We were born to explode our potential, to share our gifts with the world. How many great ideas do you have lying around in your head? What is stopping you from putting them out there? There is a whole world waiting for you, in need of you! Don’t waste your gifts, share them with the world. We weren’t given something to be good at just for ouselves to know while we rot in a desk working our whole lives.

That being said, get those ideas out of your head, onto paper, and get moving! You have the world in your favor, I promise. The first step is to start!