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Aug 29 2008

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Request for Your Advice

Posted at 12:43 pm under Self Reflection

Gracie & Me
Gracie & Me

It feels like the last 2 weeks were swallowed in one big gulp.

Have you ever had a Big Gulp from 7-11? I just drank one on a road trip I took with my husband up to Cache Creek for a white water rafting trip where I was tossed out of our raft multiple times and sent floating down the rapids with only my water shoes and life jacket (um – I just skipped back to read this paragraph and I must add that I also had my bikini on :~) Yeah, I’m bruised and scraped, but alive and all my limbs in tact. Whew!

But anyhow, I think I’ve been MIA because I go through these cycles where I put myself out there to the extreme and then I have to hide and recharge. And the cycle isn’t so much about what I’m doing (i.e. blogging). It’s more about the amount of pressure I put on myself. You see, I have this nasty habit of holding myself to super high standards – nothing short of perfection of course. And it’s so god damned debilitating. It’s like I ping pong from one extreme to the other: fully exposed and completely hidden.

It would be nice to find a balance.

But, more importantly, it would be nice to let go of the perfection pressure. So I’d like to here from you. How do you process perfectionism? How do you balance putting yourself out there without getting completely drained? What do you do to release the pressure of parenting, work, family, etc.? Please share your wisdom and experience with me. I need it.

*photo note: I always like seeing photos of the bloggers I visit so I thought I would post a new photo of me and Gracie that my husband Will took.

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  • http://tropicofmom.com Holly at Tropic of Mom

    I like to call myself an ex-perfectionist. I used to make myself crazy trying so hard to be perfect. Now if I’m ever tempted (which I’m usually not anymore), all I have to do is remember those crazed times, and I realize I don’t want to be that way again! I’m cured.

    Holly at Tropic of Moms last blog post..Wonka Truck

  • Larissa

    For me a good question to ask yourself in a situation where failure seems impossible is, what is the worst that can happen, if such and such doesn’t happen the way I want? Generally, when I answer this the answer is not as bad as I imagined. And usually I can keep going with it, and if such and such happened, then what? etc. Usually I can stop, pull back out of my present moment of frenzy and see things in a new light. A less frantic light and one that presnts more options and solutions. I know this isn’t a solution but a tool that can help me from time to time.

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