“Striving for excellence motivates you,
striving for perfection demoralizes you.”
Harriet Braiker
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I made it! Linked up my post just under the wire! 🙂 I think it’s easy to get caught up in the pursuit of perfection, and then to give up when we realize we can’t achieve that. We aren’t expected to be perfect, not in this life anyway!
Yay! I am off to read your post.
Today is another opportunity for me to … stop my compulsive control at home and let ever over nineteen get on with their choices… 😀
To all parents, we gotta let them walk at sometime…stop carrying the baby!!
Is there a mother that doesn’t struggle with this? I doubt it.
Wow…this is very heavy; definitely food for thought.
Something to chew on for sure.
OMG! That’s so true!
I agree. Only people in heaven are perfect, problem is they are well…dead.