WEEK 8: iMPERFECT

Here I am again with my forever battle against perfection. It’s physically impossible to get everything right all of the time and to perform with excellence 100% of the time.

This week I felt like I let myself and my internship down. I fell off my train track towards success. While encounter personal life rearing it’s ugly distracting face, the lines of responsibility and motivation began to blur. I took a moment to recoup and recollect my thoughts out of town and my performance suffered. I chose mental health over deadlines, assignments and commitments. It needed to be done, but wowie did I pay the price of grinding when I came home.

I let work slide and had to hit the ground running the moment I stepped back into my role. I should also mention I have a history of procrastination that I am desperately, and mostly successfully, reforming from. This is probably while I feel like a failure when I miss deadlines. I’m learning acceptance that this can happen from time to time. It’s no failure… only my humanity reminding me that I can’t be super woman every day. Sometimes it’s okay to breath and recoup when life does what life does. It be throwing some nasty boulders at you sometimes. The only thing one can do is pick back up where we left off and trudge on forward.

This is my learning lesson of the week. My silver lining is that with a nice break and rest comes renewed resilience and fresh determination! Onwards and upwards we go!