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.
