You're listening to Be You Unapologetically Podcast with Kyra Carlin.

Learn to love you as you are now and quit waiting on someone else to tell you who you are.

Be you unapologetically.

Good morning and thank you for listening to Be You Unapologetically Podcast.

I am Kyra Carlin and I am just going to be 100% honest with you guys.

This is the fifth time recording this.

And I think it's pretty dang funny with the topic

that I am going to be talking about that I'd already decided is trying to show up perfect.

And I just realized now, I'm like, hmm, you've just deleted four podcasts because you didn't like

how it sounded.

And I think it's kind of like a slap in the face or a wake-up call to being like,

hey, by the way, you're never going to have your stuff figured all the way out.

So I actually want to talk about whenever you're chasing perfection or you're chasing happiness.

A lot of people get perfection and consistent,

confused. I think a lot of people think of, oh, she's perfect. She can do this because she's perfect

or she has a perfect house, perfect wife, life, perfect everything that you can think of. Like maybe it's her fitness. Maybe it's her house. Maybe it's

her style. Maybe it's her car. Whatever things that you're seeing from the outside, you are judging

what she has and basing it upon everything is perfect. So you feel like you need to chase perfection.

And I also think we think we need to chase happiness.

And what is the biggest struggle that I find that I have and I think other people also have

is not being okay with what you have right now, like not being present in your current state.

So maybe you've been like searching, searching,

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