Perfection Is Not Sustainable

Today I am launching my blogsite: Bliss101-Encouraging the Design of Sustainable Relationships, Lives and Environments.

This is a big deal. I have been in this process for a couple months now, waiting for it all to be perfect before I let the world in to see. Each day or so I tweak it, change this or that, get frustrated by technology, or ignore it all together. The process has neither been satisfying or very energy producing. I have held onto the idea that that it needs to look a certain way, say all the right things, project the perfect image, appeal to the right market, and with each passing day I found myself with less juice for actually launching the whole thing.

How funny that a blog focusing on sustainability of relationships, lives and environments would be depleting my energy versus producing bundles of positive energy on many fronts! Something needed to change. But, I was stuck and uncertain. (Yup, even Life Coaches need a good swift kick in the butt once in awhile to get off the bench and back in their game.) Mine came in the form of an innocent conversation with a friend where I realized that striving for perfection was about the most unsustainable thing I could be doing.

In the natural world, there is little perfection. (Or, as I like to say there is so much wonderful perfection in all the imperfection.) Right now sitting at my desk, I look out my window on a half dead pine tree that stands just over the fence in our neighbors yard. It’s craggy, tipping over and has only a few green boughs on it. Most people would cut it down, sighting dangers and aesthetics as reasons. Personally, I think it is just perfect! It provides a wonderful resting place for birds, some character to the landscape, and a reminder that beauty and form and aliveness and life has no rules, really.

So, who am I to judge the perfection of anything in it’s current form? While my blogsite is not perfect in my eyes with regards to how it looks, or even what I think it says, there may be something here that is exactly the most perfect thing for someone who visits.

So, welcome all to Bliss101! I hope you will stick around and join me on the journey of designing sustainable relationships, lives and environments in our lives. Not perfect ones, just sustainable ones! My hope is that something here inspires you to live life on your own terms, to remove the blanket of shoulds holding you back, to get healthy and strong in all ways, and to find your special path to joy, fulfillment and Whole Health. Thanks for being here.

Also, big thanks to Kathleen Sullivan of the SavvyVA who got me going on this project ad helped out  lot!!