Today’s micro show is a reminder to aim lower. Sounds crazy and counterintuitive for sure, but it is the secret (in my opinion) to showing up as a creative in a noisy and competitive world. The minute you begin to intentionally practice imperfection is the minute you can start doing the work you were meant to do with expectations that produce results!

Oxford defines imperfection as the state of being faulty or incomplete. I don't like that definition, so I’d like to submit one of my own …

Imperfection is the state of being free to grow towards a higher or more complete version of oneself.

I have learned after years of practice that an expectation of imperfection is actually super healthy. I will share an early and more recent story to illustrate this. I’m also sharing wise words from Seth Godin and Lauren Sapala and my best tip on what to do when you make your next blunder!

As you read Lauren’s advice, replace “writing” or “writers” with whatever it is YOU do—or want to do more of.

Of course props to Pee Wee Herman for his outstanding example of owning imperfection!

And finally, I pulled 2 additional quotes from 2 awesome General Conference talks I heard over this past Easter weekend. The first is this, “The Lord does not require perfect faith for us to have access to His perfect power,” from this talk by Russel M. Nelson and the second is this, “We are all infants compared to the beings of glory and grandeur we are designed to become. No mortal being advances from crawling to walking to running without frequent stumbles, bumps, and bruises. That is how we learn,” from this talk by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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