Journal Prompt Series - Get going

Does this resonate for you? Are you sometimes (maybe all the time) just a little too critical of yourself? Expectations too high for you AND for others? Maybe frozen for fear that something isn't quite good enough? Or keep yourself so incredibly busy you've no time to stop and think?
I was that girl for 40-some years... I never would have considered myself a perfectionist because I wasn't perfect! But here I was being so incredibly over critical of everything I did, every thought I had, and every one around me.
Perfection is an illusion. An impossible feat to achieve, a continuous failure - perfectionism stops you from truly expressing who you are, from fully embracing life and experiencing joy.
I wanted to live on the other side! I wanted to experience joy and I wanted to live larger! To do that I needed to own my story, feel the feels, share with others, and take some risks...
Do the thing. Get going!