Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week, daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Okay, all you won enneagrams out there, I might be messing with you a little today.

The truth is, I'm messing with me a little today, too, because I have some of those

sort of always want to get it right, walk into the room and see what needs to be fixed rather

than what is going well kind of tendencies. I'm not really talking to the one enneagrams today.

I'm teasing about that. I'm actually talking to all of us in some way that suffer from the

dreaded, I need to do this perfect syndrome.

And I'm going to tell you why I think we mostly do it and what helps me get over it the most.

I'll be right back to dive in.

I wrote goodness back in 2008, now a book called Behind Those Eyes, what's really going on

inside the souls of women, about the roles women play, and I listed the four main ones I believe

we most struggle with, misconfidence, mis-happiness, mis-spirituality, and yes, misperfection.

Misperfection is that woman who at least on the surface appears to have it all together.

You know the type.

And it's not that she does have it all together, but it's the perception.

And many times I think it's the wanted perception, or at least the thing the perfectionist

on some level strives for.

Whether we care if someone thinks we're perfect or not, we at least want thing the perfectionist on some level strives for. Whether we care if someone thinks

we're perfect or not, we at least want it to be completely perfect and ordered for us so we can

sleep well at night. And look, I'm not here to dive into all the psychological reasons for that.

Good grief. We've tackled some hard things in the last two days on the show, but for this show, I want us to talk

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