Comments on: Stop Being Your Best and Enjoy Life

By: The Book of Wisdom – 101 Posts for the All-Around Balanced Life | Balance In Me

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:52:16 +0000

[...] Stop being your best and enjoy your life [...]

By: Nepal Travel

Nepal Travel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:33:04 +0000

i agree with Anastasiya.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:55:52 +0000

I used to hand out business card magnets to my clients. The perfectionists got one that read, “Embrace Mediocrity.” If I can bend the reed past the desired point, we can end up at the desired point – good enough!!

By: Paramjit

Paramjit — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:39:33 +0000

You hit the nail on the head with this article. In these modern and competitive times, we are constantly trying to out do each other. Trying to be the best as you have rightfully said. But we do have to live a little too. We do actually forget to stop and smell the flowers. Great stuff!
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By: Anastasiya

Anastasiya — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:40:34 +0000

@Marie
that’s a great strategy in life. Sometimes in order to finish something you have to get distracted from it for a while. Creating a post can be a perfect example. You can run out of inspiration in the middle of an article and then no matter what you do you just do not life it. Just walk away, do the “want” stuff and then get back to the post. Sometimes it might not seem perfect to you but a lot of your readers will enjoy it because they like the real you. I think I would have never published any of my posts if I tried to make them perfect and simply the best
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By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:44:13 +0000

Hi, Anastasiya and Mary -

One thing I have found helpful is to give myself permission to enjoy doing the “want to” stuff even when the “have to” stuff is not yet finished or not yet completed perfectly (because I will never reach the point where that will be the case).

Thanks for providing some great food for thought!

- Marie (Coming Out of the Trees)
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By: Positively Present

Positively Present — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:32:22 +0000

Great guest post! I really enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to checking out Balance in Me.

By: Dayne | TheHappySelf.com

Dayne | TheHappySelf.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:26 +0000

Wow, this is a wonderful post and makes absolute perfect sense. It’s amazing how many times we try to be “perfect” or be the very “best”. While we are at it, we are missing out on life.

Thanks for this wonderful reminder to just live and just be.

Cheers,
Dayne
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By: Anastasiya

Anastasiya — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:07:09 +0000

Mick and Steven thank you for your comments. I think that life is not long enough to be wasting it looking for perfection. It’s much more important to enjoy life while we can.
Malcolm, the most important is not to get stuck on the idea of being the best. You can give all you have to reach a goal that you see in front of you. However, I do not think that you have to be the best in order to reach this goal. You can be only as good as you really are
Anastasiya´s last blog ..Help Us Build a Brighter Future

By: Steven Aitchison

Steven Aitchison — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:46:32 +0000

Hi Anastasiya. Striving to become better means you are not happy with the Now, if you are not happy with the now you will never be happy.

Where does it end? There is always someone better than you at most things we do, however, there is nobody better at being you, so being happy with you is essential, so I wholeheartedly agree with what you say.
Steven Aitchison´s last blog ..De-personalising Personal Development