Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about holding yourself to a high standard.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so holding yourself to a high standard.

I wrote a post on Instagram the other day

and I'll read it to you and then we'll

deconstruct it.

It said, what would it look like to hold yourself to a high standard while also having

respect, compassion, and understanding for where you are in this moment.

What would it look like to hold yourself to a high standard

while also having respect, compassion,

and understanding for where you are in this moment.

That's the inquiry I'm really interested in.

I think so often we have an idea of the person that where we could be or the

S word is even worse the person we should be, that we don't show ourselves compassion for where we are in

the moment and the complexity of life circumstances that maybe have brought us to where we are. But we could also take it too far in the

other direction where we have a lot of sympathy for where we are in this moment and

yeah we can even make excuses for why we can't grow

or can't do this.

And it's because of my past,

and because this happened,

and because of this reason or that reason.

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