You are perfect.

I wanted to start off with one of my favorite all time concepts, that you are perfect, just as you are. This concept may be hard for you to connect with in this moment as we are often surrounded by noise telling us that we need to do more, be more, and have more in order to be adequate, and that who we are is simply not good enough. In addition, in such a connected world, we often times compare ourselves to others who seem to either be further along than we are, or that they have it 'figured out', and that we are somehow behind. I feel that the below quote from Jen Sincero, the author of You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life captures the essence of why you are perfect just as you are.

“You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it’s got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid. Says who? You’re on a journey with no defined beginning, middle or end. There are no wrong twists and turns. There is just being. And your job is to be as you as you can be. This is why you’re here. To shy away from who you truly are would leave the world you-less. You are the only you there is and ever will be. I repeat, you are the only you there is and ever will be. Do not deny the world its one and only chance to bask in your brilliance.”