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Like many of my fellow humans, I struggle with all-or-nothing thinking.<\/p>\n
This has been a constant theme of my life. I either want to be the best, or I don\u2019t even want to try. I want to give my full-on effort in a workout, or not work out at all. I want to have my perfectly planned day, and when that doesn\u2019t happen, I\u2019ll consider the entire day a loss.<\/p>\n
Although it doesn\u2019t always come naturally to me, I know that striving for balance is a better path than falling victim to inflexible thinking.<\/p>\n
That aiming for long-term consistency instead of perfection leads to more progress than starting and stopping all of the time.<\/p>\n
So I try my best to seek balance. To not be so hard on myself and accept, rather than fight, the world around me.<\/p>\n
Of course, this isn\u2019t easy in the all-or-nothing culture we live in.<\/p>\n
We often compare ourselves to others who claim to be perfect (but of course, no one is actually perfect outside of social media).<\/p>\n
We aim to eat perfectly healthy, get eight hours of sleep, and go to the gym for a full hour. And when none of that happens, we think all is lost.<\/p>\n
So we resort to binging on junk food, staying up all night, and skipping our workout altogether instead of trying to get something, anything<\/i> in.<\/p>\n
For most of us, perfection is a trap. A better approach is to aim to be pretty good, most of the time.<\/p>\n
This may be tough at first. It requires the maturity to understand that most of life is outside of our control. To understand that something is always better than nothing.<\/p>\n
That sometimes, \u201cgood enough\u201d is the path to long-term success.<\/p>\n
Keep going.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Krista<\/p>\n