Striving For Progress, Not Perfection

Normally I am quite an optimistic person. 

"Oh hey Britt, you left your windows down in the rain!" Cool! I always liked playing with water. "Yeah, uh, Britt, your unsaved essay sort of just got lost... forever." Eh, I'll rewrite it... After all, I love writing and the original essay wasn't that great anyways!

You see what I mean?

Except, tomorrow I go back to school. BLEH. I still feel as if I haven't really "lived up" my summer yet and want more time. But just because you want "more time" doesn't mean life is just going to hand you it. So suck it up buttercup.

I'm all over the board today. OH BOY. Here's a cool picture I recently found:

Oh man is this true or what? It's a good reminder to myself when I beat myself up for someone doing something better than me, whether that's lifting heavier in the weight room or writing a better piece than myself. I am naturally a very competitive person so I always have to go above and beyond. 

Sometimes I beat myself up because I can't squat a certain weight, or something similar like that. But then I look at the people who can squat heavy. They pretty much always prove to be experienced athletes who have developed that ability by hard work and practice over the years. Going back up to the above quote, they probably started out exactly where I did. I just have to dig into my patience to gradually increase the weight (on any exercise, not just squats). 

That's my problem. I am extremely impatient. I can't sit still for more than five minutes. I am super antsy and I like to get stuff DONE. Typical Type A personality I am over here. No shame. But sometimes I need to remember to just breathe. I want to do this, I need to do that. No Britt, you just need to relax and take it step by step. Sure, I desperately wish that I could just attack every heavy weight in the weight room, but I can't. I have to build up the strength, just like everybody else.

I am not perfect and my mind doesn't like that. But oh well. Too freaking bad. Nothing is handed to you in life without a little hard work, as my mother always told me. And it's true! I just wish my ambitious brain could understand this. ;) I am striving for progress, not perfection.

Anyways, after that little tangent, I just have to say that I may not be able to blog everyday now that school is starting. Most likely it will be every other day so don't miss me too much. ;) I love writing and blogging far too much to completely forget about it! 

Lastly, being the big Lord of the Rings fan that I am, I leave you with THIS masterpiece that I hope makes you chuckle as it did me. Just trying to inject a little bit of sunshine into everyone's life. :)

(discovered on Pinterest)

If you don't understand this picture, go watch the movie Mean Girls. ;)

Have a great Wednesday everyone!

Questions: Are you like me in that you just want to be the best automatically? Are you competitive or laid back? Finally, are you a Lord of the Rings fan like myself?

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