Quote Of The Week

"Perfection is the best you can do on the day". 

                                                           Anon

This was quoted to me once by a yoga  teacher, and I've been fond of it ever since.  People seem to split into two camps; they either embrace it wholeheartedly, or reject it completely.  There doesn't seem to be any middle ground with this one!

The logic is simple.  If you are doing your absolute best, then perfection is, indeed, the best you can do on the day.  You can't make it any better.  If you really must aim for perfection, then perhaps this quote will help you to be a little kinder to yourself, to relax the rules you are living by;  I suspect that they hurt you, on a regular basis. 

Quote of the Week.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

                                                                                                                                      (anon)                   

This is one of my favourite ever quotations, and it's the basis for a lot of what I do and teach. I think we confuse ourselves between what we can and can't change.  We  have a lot more power over our circumstances than we like to believe.  It's more comfortable to dismiss an issue as something that we have no power over, instead of recognising that we do have a choice as to whether we take responsibility for it, or not.  There are always choices.  It's just that some of them are so small as to feel unimportant, and many of them involve the lives, freedoms and choices of other people.  It can feel impossible.  But it isn't.  

What many of us forget, is that in order to give to others, you have to give to yourself, first.  For most people reading this, that giving to ourselves will take the form of creative work.  It is a wonderful way of giving yourself joy and meaning.  I believe that it is essential that we make space in our lives for creativity, however we perceive that to be.  This blog is about making that space.  I hope you will find it useful.