Experience Letting Go Of Perfectionism

Hey, how you doing, Cadre fam? My name is Nick the poet, also known as Nick Hanson. And I've been thinking about this topic of perfectionism lately, and I want to show you how you should do things maybe a little bit differently to let go of that perfectionism. And these things have really helped me, and these are real practices that I take into my life on a daily basis. And so one thing that comes to mind with perfectionism is the way. Shout out, Alec, thanks for joining. So good to see you, my man.

And so, with perfectionism, it's like, how can we combat that, you know, in a really bite sized chunk? And so I'm going to take an example. So I have a peloton right here. Okay? This is a peloton bike. Shout out, peloton. We love them. And basically, sometimes I'm on Zoom calls right here, kind of all day, right? And so sometimes I might be in between something, and I only have ten minutes to ride the peloton, you know? And so a lot of the classes are 20 or 30 minutes, but in my book, it's better to get that ten minutes on the peloton in, as opposed to, you know, not riding it at all.

Right? And I have my guitar here, right? And I've played the guitar for years to process my poetry. Never been that great of a player, but it's just something I enjoy. So if I only have, right, ten minutes to strum the guitar or five minutes to practice, that's better than nothing, you know, so we don't have to do things perfectly now, some things, maybe we do. Maybe there's a work project that really all the details need to be ironed out, you know? And so I think having the balance and kind of knowing when you need to be perfect and when you can't can help let go of some of this, you know, perfectionism.

So that's just something to think about. And here we have, I believe this is a c chord right here, and this is an e chord. My man Chris Edger could tell you more about that. One of our other Cadre creators, Chris, please send me a tutorial on how to play the guitar. Maybe we could do a video about that. So, this is kind of fun, guys. So just showing you some of these different examples. So I think I'm going to actually hop on the peloton now. Let's see here. Okay. If you can only do one bicep curl, then do what?

It's better than none. If we just keep making progress and keep chipping away, right? And I've been always saying for the past few years, chipping away, like, I'm just kind of, you know, making a little bit of progress. And recently my buddy said, why don't you try using skipping away instead? Right. Because a lot of times if we have these tasks that we want to get done and we're like, I've got to do this or I should do this, should, you know, is no good. And disciple or discipline, I mean, really means just being a disciple of the joy in your life because it's a lot easier to kind of go with that joy, right, and follow the joy that it is to do these shoulds.

And of course, we have shoulds that we just got to get done. So once again, it's more about that, that balance, right? So these are some ways that I'm letting go of perfectionism in my life, and I wanted to actually show them to you as opposed to just, just talking about it, because a lot of the great writers will say show, don't tell. So if I've got ten minutes, you know, I'm gonna hop on that peloton. If I've got three minutes to do yoga, I'm gonna do three minutes of yoga. And I think especially in the, you know, culture, in the work culture that a lot of us are in with remote work or just the quick, you know, fast paced kind of lifestyle, it's better to make some progress than none.

So keep chipping away, keep skipping away, keep doing your best. And we got this right. It's a tough, it's tough out there right now. There's war, there's pandemic. There's all this stuff happening. The world seems to be moving at this, this clip where the consciousness is rising, but also difficult times arising. So let's, let's stick together. And the one thing we know is that our wellness, our mental health, our peace, if we're finding that we're going to be better off and the people in our circle are going to be better off and that's going to emanate and vibe outwards, right?

So raise your, raise hand your vibe. Let's keep manifesting and finessing. I'll catch you on the flip side. Peace. Peace.