Pick your Perfects to Achieve your Real Goals
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This is about setting expectations and boundaries so you can reach your true goals and how the reality of linear time is cruel.
We all get the same thing daily - 24 hours.
We can only do so many things in a day and life is packed with millions of things we either want to do or have to do.
Here’s the real kicker - sometimes you have to sacrifice perfection in one thing to achieve another thing.
We need to Pick our Perfects.
For example - I want to be able to lift weights 3x a week, walk my dog 5 miles a day, run a successful freelance art business, and have a few hours of chill on the couch time at the end of the day.
A reality of keeping these goals is I essentially don’t take meal time breaks. I’ve always eaten quickly, and I practice intermittent fasting, so breakfast doesn’t happen, lunch takes no more than 15 mins, snacks are eaten while working, and dinner is the same (unless I’m in a place to make a more fancy dinner).
I don’t have a perfect meal times because I don’t have enough minutes to do that and do all the fitness, business, and relaxation activities I actually want to do.
I’m trading “perfect meals” for “perfect workout and relax on the couch time” because the later is more important to me.
Now, this is very important. Am I saying you need to do what I do? Definitely not!
What I am saying is that if you are having trouble fitting in something you want to do, now is a great time to review all your “perfects.”
Want to sketch more? Workout more? Read more? Relax more?
Does lunch need to be fancy and an hour long? Maybe it does and that’s totally valid, and maybe it doesn’t so you can do the thing you want to do instead.
Maybe the dishes and the laundry can be done decently instead of perfectly?
Maybe you don’t cook daily and do meal prep once weekly?
Maybe the house is a bit messy?
Maybe you sketch for less time than ideal?
Maybe this podcast has minimal editing instead of worrying about every “ummm”. (It DOES, btw!)
Maybe I workout for 20 minutes instead of 60? (I do this a lot.)
There are always more things to do than what we can do perfectly. So it’s very important to pick your perfects, so you can have the life you want to have.
What do you think of this concept? Do you think it could work for you? Let us know below.
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Sarah
Written by Sarah Dahlinger
Discussed by Sarah Dahlinger and Sarah Forde