02/12/2025
Day 2 of my Wordy Advent.
And a gentle but firm reminder that if you are trying to achieve perfection this month, you are on an uphill journey to nowhere great.
It is the imperfections, the flaws, and the messiness that create most beautifully lived lives. I see it all the time.
The love lives in the things forgotten because the conversation was just too good. The joy sneaks in when you take a beat from your militant routine to just notice what’s going on around you.
So, for your task today, can you do something imperfectly? Leave something unfinished? Decide not to break your back over a very simple task and instead do it with love and presence and see what happens.
Jot it down, say it out loud, stitch it to the fabric of the universe with intent, and perhaps make a little pact with yourself that you are going to focus more on what’s important this month and less on trying to make everything perfect for an invisible judge and jury.
It’s your life. You’re here to live it. Not show it like a house that’s ready to be sold. Mess some things up and sit with the discomfort. Then laugh it off and put your feet up, my love. That’s the version of you we want to see living their best life.
Donna x
(All of the words on my advent windows are adapted from ‘Joy Chose You’ or my journal ‘Words To Live By’)
