Seeking FUN not Perfection

It’s Wednesday and it seems like forever since I shared a slightly personal, off topic post. Today I’d like to share something I learned in yoga class yesterday.

If you can do this with a smile on your face, you’re getting somewhere!

My yoga teacher started off the class by admitting she can be a perfectionist. It’s a tendency she battles with a bit – being too picky, trying to do everything herself, the need for control over any situation.

I had to smile at this because this describes me to a T. Despite my frequent reminders to everyone in the world to accept mistakes and not seek perfection with our quilt along project, I find myself unable to practice what I’m preaching myself. I still seek perfection, and I still beat myself up when my stitching or design falls short.

So in yoga we did a funny move that required us to move from one pose to another that was sort of upside down. It didn’t feel very natural and many students crashed into one another, or the wall, and began laughing because it’s a move that would likely have been easy as kids, but has become a lot more challenging as an a adult.

At the end of class my teacher asked how many students preformed that post perfectly. No one raised their hands.

Then she asked how many of us had FUN. We all raised our hands!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah