Episode 7: Stop Trying to Micromanage Your Slip Ups

When I started recording this episode, I intended to discuss (and hopefully uncover a solution to) finding balance between giving yourself grace and holding yourself accountable. I was looking for a formula to help me determine what percentage was good versus what percentage was bad.

In unfolding the conversation, I realized I was asking myself the wrong question altogether.

It’s tempting to try to control every aspect of our lives - even our mistakes. That illusion of control allows us to feel like everything is predictable and calculable and, inherently, safe.

But you know what’s even better than control? Adaptability. Now that, my friends, is the answer I didn’t know I needed.

Episode 6: Ditch Perfection & Aim for Excellence Instead

For as long as I can remember, I’ve described myself as a perfectionist. Avoiding mistakes like the plague and subsequently beating myself up anytime I (inevitably) made them.

Striving for perfection hasn’t been all bad - it’s fostered a strong attention to detail, kept my standards for myself high, and has instilled a deep pride for my work within me. Even so, perfection is a dead end to disappointment because it’s an impossible (and, honestly, unnecessary) caliber to reach.

So how do we take the good and leave the bad? Eat the meat and spit out the bones? Buckle up my friends, because we’re making a sharp left turn into excellence, and we’re not looking back.

Episode 5: Why I No Longer Strive to Be Good Enough

Feeling “good enough” is something I’ve chased for many years and, yet, I’ve struggled to quantify it. What does that mean? Is there a metric of “good enough” that I’ll finally achieve some day and never question my worth again?

Sometimes we hold beliefs that begin to feel like part of us over time. But what if we stop and take stock of those beliefs to see what’s actually helping us - and, on the flip side of that, what might genuinely be hurting us?

Let’s brush the dust off those old creaky beliefs and see what needs to be rearranged, modified, or even let go altogether.