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Are You Enough?
How many times have we heard the statement, “Don’t try to be perfect; just be yourself”? Probably, many times. And yet, the quest for perfection nowadays is stronger than ever.
Perfection is stagnation. Progress always beats perfection. Do your best, forget the rest. You can never reach a horizon.
While all these statements are true, do you actually live them?
We live in a culture of “never good enough”. The benchmark for excellence is higher than ever. Competition on the market place is sky-scraping… Beauty and plastic surgery industry is booming. Alcohol and drugs are an illusionary exit from pain.
This culture cultivates unrealistic expectations with high demands for yourself, which promote the feeling of not being good enough.
Now, instead of growing and developing ourselves, we hide, pretend and give rise to inner insecurities.
The life portrayed on social media is so removed from reality it is shocking. But it is the place where you can pretend everything is ideal.
A quest for perfection keeps people stuck. Instead of taking an imperfect action whether it comes to business or personal life, we wait for the perfect set of circumstances to…
