This Thought Counts

Guess what? You don't have to get it right the first time. All right. Pick yourself up off the ground. It's true! You not only DON'T have to get it right, only a fool would expect you to. *cough* Yep. You. I am too - I am a bit of a perfectionist and have to be reminded constantly that I don't have to be - gah! That is hard to say.  And yet, if we expect perfection, it just isn't possible - and the fear and stress as we try to stay on top of things and make 'it' go off without a hitch? Vibration killer. Don't do that to yourself. Remember all those other hints I've been giving? Yep. Laugh at your mistakes. Smile when you see one. Grin when not everything goes right, knowing that was how it was supposed to be and you are amazing anyway! Be Imperfectly Perfect. Be you. Be happy. And stop stressing over it! 

( Originally posted July 31, 2008 Boundless Living Challenge ) Well, yesterday (Day 11) I came across some major resistance. It is an issue I have had all my life, and yesterday it hit really hard. I was really tired, and it came up while I was doing EFT. I have this intense need to be perfect. If I'm not perfect it truly throws me off - actually it destroys me. When I started the tapping, I immediately lost it. You could say that on a scale of 0-10, my reaction was a 20. I tapped 3 times and got it down to a 15. I changed the wording a little bit, but that is where it stayed. I need to get this resistance down, I'm just not sure what words I need to use. After getting the feeling down a tiny bit, I tried some positive tapping to see if that could help, but when I tried to tap "It is ok if I'm not perfect", all I heard was "Oh NO IT'S NOT!" Now, I know where this issue comes from. I know who started it and why its there. I had this issue crammed int...