By Nanice Ellis
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Perfectionism is sneaky – on the surface it sounds like it could be a good thing. After all, what’s wrong with perfection?

It is true that perfectionism is a strategy for success, but when you measure success by your ability to be consistently perfect, success is perpetually out of reach. The strategy of perfectionism, sooner or later, does the opposite of what it was intended to do.

If you look closely you will see that, like a wolf in sheep’s clothes, perfectionism is just another name for self-judgment. In the name of perfection, we give ourselves permission to be self-critical and undermining every time we fall short. Never quite meeting our own standards of perfection, because good is not good enough, we become our own worst enemies. If there is such a thing as perfect, and we believe that we must live up to this unrealistic ideal in order to succeed, we set ourselves up for perpetual disappointment, failure and maybe even depression.

Joy is an attitude. It is a choice one makes every moment. The key to joy is gratitude. When you are thankful for every experience you are having, your whole Being energetically opens to the possibility of feeling joy.

We encourage you to spend time this week being in joy, every moment. Continue with this practice until it becomes habitual. You came from a place of joy and soon you will return to that place. In the meantime, you have the right to be filled with joy. It is your choice!   Be in joy! Be joy!  Men 1

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Scream and shout, dance and sing, live and love. The most amazing things happen when you open yourself up to experience. ~ Creator

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God said:

There is more to life than the bare bones you mostly attend to. Life is more than what the world lets on. Life, as it appears to the world, is a hidden secret, which, down deep, everyone knows very well. It is like you skirt the issues of life and choose to chatter instead. The life you live has often been a secret you keep from yourself and that you go to great lengths not to see. What you don’t see can’t hurt you, you say to yourself, as you avert your eyes.

There is a door to open that you hesitate to open. You desire happiness and may accept frivolity or the appearance of frivolity with all you are worth. You may run away from the very life you desire and call that your destiny.

There are as many ways to escape life as there are ways to reach Me. You can hoard life. You can dance around it. Often you find life as a precarious situation and unreal. It is hard for you to separate real from fantasy. You don’t want to face life and the present emptiness that weighs heavily on you, which, so far as you know, you would not know how to do without.

Return to the little pleasures. The little pleasures seed your life. Let joy rise to the top.

Take to the woods, beloveds. Go for walks. Find Me. Find Me. We are One. There are no singletons. Life does not try to escape you. Life looks for you at every corner. Be here.