You Cannot Fail at Being Yourself

We tend to be our worst critic. We cast a glance at ourselves and notice our imperfections. We judge ourselves for all kind of things – our appearance, our attitude, our state of mind, “losing it” with our loved ones, being disorganised and not getting work done on time.

We may long to be the “perfect” (or ‘near-perfect’) parent, partner, son/daughter, employee/employer, business person and so on. Most of us wish we made the right choices and got things right all the time. And yet most of us seem to keep failing to reach the standards we set for ourselves – that’s when we judge ourselves yet again.

But, we also intuitively realise that there is no such thing as the “perfect human being”. And, yet so many of us will admit to being a perfectionist