Steps To Perfection

2022 is less than 72 hours away, and I'm filled with excitement! In January, will be starting two new jobs, in diametrically different energy spaces. I will be teaching my own yoga class at the local studio, and stepping out of my comfort zone and into a new global role with my technology centered day job. Yesterday, as I practiced yoga in a class filled with diversely skilled yogis, I began to think about these new steps on my journey. My focus was not so much on these to individual steps, but rather on how I often forget they are part of one big journey. Too often I catch myself striving to complete something, achieve something, or be the best. When I achieve this, I have what? Won? Have bragging rights to say I did it? As I said, I was in yoga class thinking about how I was struggling with some Asanas, becoming impatient with my progress to be the perfect yogi, and beginning to speak unkindly to myself. Then I was blessed with that spark, that brief moment of pause which seems to appear out of nowhere. My mind sees itself, and how I am speaking to myself. It's in that moment I have a choice. I can continue to speak to myself in a way I would never speak to another person, or I can speak the truth. The truth is, I can hold poses longer and deeper than ever before, my hips are more flexible, and I was miraculously balanced in a headstand for more than five seconds during class. I see my yoga practice as being similar to my approach to my new day job. I will continue to show up and bring my diverse skills to this new role, but if I am striving for perfection with my sight is only set on the being the best, I'll miss the experience of the journey.