Spirit Sunday * Progress, not perfection
This is a good time to remember one of our favorite sayings here at Marilu.com – Progress, not Perfection!
You may be stalling out on your New Year inTENtions (or call them goals or resolutions if you want). It’s pretty typical to hit that plateau in action or commitment by the end of January. When you make conscious changes in your life, it takes awhile to make them routine and habitual. When you’ve lived the routine for a long time, it can be difficult to step it up to the next level.
You need strength, conviction, perseverance, yes – all of that! But you also need to practice forgiveness and you need to be gentle with yourself. None of this is punishment for bad habits, it’s liberation from them! And with this liberation comes the power of self-knowledge.
Take pride in what you’ve accomplished so far. Be honest in evaluating where you want to be, and what you need to do to get there. You can achieve your inTENtions with practice. Each day just needs to be a little bit better than the day before. Just a little bit. Progress will get you there.
