I am so excited. I'm so excited. I am. I'm just so ready for this year to be better.

Did you catch that? Notice I didn't say perfect. I didn't say I'm so ready for this year to be perfect.

I said I'm so excited for this year to be better. But wait, why not perfect? I mean, shouldn't we want

things to be perfect? Chat, I'm really confused right now. I was waiting to make my New

year's resolutions from this episode as I knew you would have some ideas. Now you're telling me

that you don't want us to want things to be

perfect. I'm really confused. Well, let's open this box a little more. This season, this

first week of this new year, rather than the list of how things are going to be perfect this

year, what if we decided to not make it perfect, but instead?

Better.

Somewhere in the back of our minds, we have this idea that this year it's going to be perfect.

Why is that?

Why do we insist on seeking perfection? What if for this year we erased

the word perfect from our vocabulary and replaced it with better? This year I'm ready already to stop striving for perfection. And just to, I'm, I'm ready already to stop striving for perfection and just to aim to make things including myself better.

Even though it may seem like a crazy idea at first, I think this will be the key for emotional and physical well-being in this coming year.

Here's why. Better means taking more breaks. Better means enjoying quality time with friends and

family. This journey of self-improvement should lead us to a path towards better house,

better happiness, better relationships, better you. But every year buried deep down in our hearts

lies this hope that this year might finally be the one, whatever that means, that this time

around things will be perfect. But perfection is like a ghost. It's elusive and impossible to

catch. And there's something both inspiring and yet heartbreaking in such a quest for perfection,

as all too often we set our sights and motivate ourselves to meet grand goals.

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