Do you ever find yourself avoiding making mistakes, or only sticking to things you know you're good at?

This is how I spent years of my life, and when I inevitably was bad at things (or didn't do as well as I hoped), I'd be super hard on myself.

After years of my own journey with perfectionism, and supporting hundreds of clients through theirs, I've come to learn that the worst part of failing isn't the "failure" itself.

What stings the most is how we talk to ourselves about that failure.

(It tends to show up in the form of "I should have..." or "I shouldn't have..." statements, with a boatload of shame and self-criticism).

Because I know how crappy that feels, I wanted to share an exercise that's been profoundly healing for me.

Basically, it's allowing yourself to play with imperfection — so you can learn how safe it really is after all.

I've boiled it down to 5 steps you can easily put into practice right away:

1) Pick something you want to try. (Bonus points if you've been wanting to do it for a while, and/or have a feeling you won't be great at it right out of the gate).

2) Decide ahead of time that there's zero pressure to perform.

3) Do the thing. Let yourself be a beginner.

4) Acknowledge yourself for trying something new.

5) Notice how nothing bad happens.

That's it! Give yourself this wiggle room to experiment and play and let me know how it goes :)

To being perfectly imperfect,
Megan

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