Hello Love!
I've spoken a LOT to the idea that a truly life generating life is one of perpetual growth and expansion.
We also live in a world and a culture that is feeding us these very same ideas all day long. We're being told that any amount of existential fear/dread we feel, that any anxiety, and feelings of not enough and not good enough come down to our LACK of doing/being good enough - and that if we just got ourselves together to pursue and achieve MORE - that in this we would feel better.
In this, it can be very easy to assume that we need to be continually in a state of STRIVING. That the answer to our suffering is to find this perfect end goal - and then to do everything we can to mold ourselves into that end goal.
We aim for this perfect, then when we inevitably fail/get burnt out, we feel like it was the whole path of growth that hurt us - thus the answer must be to let it all go.
In this we feel like we make progress when we're pursuing perfection, but we then get burnt out and resentful.
When we let go we feel more at ease, but then there's a gnawing sense of not really BEING ourselves or LIVING our lives fully.
Thus we feel trapped between two poles - a strict and structured way of life on one hand, and a loosy goosy way of life on the other - neither leading to sustainable growth or peace.
We feel like the path of perfection is the ANSWER - then we feel like it's the ball and chain stopping us from having our happiness. We feel like letting go is FREEDOM, but then it feels directionless and void of meaning.
This is where precision vs. perfection comes in.
A true growth path isn't one of perfection nor is it one of free-floating through life.
It's one of precision. Showing up for the being that WE are, and doing what we can to support OUR expansion. It's about letting go of an 'ideal outcome' in exchange for self support, so that we can DISCOVER what our potential is.
A growth path is one of showing up the best we can for what we ARE, and being CURIOUS about what we are here to grow into - vs. trying to force ourselves into a predetermined outcome that may have NOTHING to do with our true expression.
Precision is very different from perfection. It's very different from letting go.
Precision is the path of growth - and it includes both effort and rest, growth and integration, appreciation and expansion.
Let's discuss how to live a life of precision so that we can find a sustainable path.
