Could you let it go
Holding on to old resentments, habits and situations is just like being dragged along by a powerboat. You might think it’s your boyfriend, your mother, your company, your childhood, your friends or your circumstances that are creating whatever state you’re stuck in. But you have more power than you realize, or maybe than you’re willing to admit.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment” i... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Trying to get rid of your perfectionism is like trying to get rid of the wind by whacking it with a broom. Perfectionism is too powerful for an eradication approach. When you try to get rid of your perfectionism, all you’re doing is hemorrhaging energy at the opportunity cost of attending to your wellness.