Confession time.... celebrating my perfect imperfection!

When you mentor and teach, there's this feeling that you should be perfect - or at least quite close to perfect.

Thing is, I was thinking about this the other day, thinking about how put off I can be by somebody who seems to just 'have it all together'.  

I guess it just doesn't seem all that genuine.

One of my favourite teachers, Clare Campbell, says that if you meet a teacher who knows it all, run a mile.  

I think the fact that I'm a little rough around the edges is a strength.  Many people have actually said this!  At first I was not sure how to take these remarks, but now I see it as a compliment.

People who work with me on realising their creative dreams are happy that I'm a real person, because it shows them that they (real people) can also achieve creative dreams.  That they (YOU) don't have to be perfect to have a perfectly splendid life.

So, here is a little post - celebrating my imperfections...... all the things that bug me about ME, when I look at other people who are doing this helping-other-people-to-awesomeness thing.  I'm going to don my tiara and be the Empress of Imperfect.  See if I don't.

Brace yourself.

I don't meditate every day.  I meditate sometimes, but the thought of doing it every morning at the same time, or even every day, just doesn't ... it just doesn't happen.

Ditto running.  And yoga.

I get stressed and shout at computers, a LOT.

I live in a perfectly ordinary sized, non-mansiony, rather quirky, very messy house.  The bathroom gets cleaned only when I can stand it no longer.  The living room is half filled with parrot toys and there is usually bird poop on the floor.  And on some of the chairs.  Sigh.

I am often late for things.  About 20 minutes is my average.

I shout at my partner for "making me late".

Doing things at the last minute is just the way I do things.  I think I must like the adrenaline rush, or something!

I enjoy green smoothies, and other healthy tasty things to eat, and eat vegan food very often - because that's the way I want to eat.  I also have pizza, cheese, chips and red wine quite often - sometimes at the same time.  Balance, n'est-ce pas?

I speak French badly.

I often read the last page of a novel after the first chapter because I can't stand to not know the ending.

I have a bag of unfinished crochet projects next to my favourite chair.  The wool catches around my ankles when I stand up and the bag trails along after me, like a lost puppy.

Ditto half read books, mainly on time management and self improvement.  A big pile, by the bed.

Going to bed early.  I know I should.  I just don't.  Even if I get there early, I hang out on Twitter for an hour. 

Hanging clothes up?  Ironing clothes?  Please!  My clothes live in little piles on the floor, chairs and some are in little colour-coded containers, which I don't put the right colours into.  Life is too short to hang things up, honestly.  

I get cross when people blame stuff on Mercury being in retrograde.  I think uncharitable, bad thoughts about how unscientific they are, and about how clever I am not to believe such things.  This may well be caused by Mercury being in retrograde.

I want an iPad.  I can't stop thinking about the shiny thing I want, at the same time I am ashamed to want a shiny thing because it's awfully shallow.  But shiny.

Vampires.  I love them.  But not when they sparkle - no.

I love cats, but say sweary words when I see them in the garden around the bird feeders.  Grrrrr.

I never did learn to drive.

I used to cycle everywhere but now my poor bike lies rusting next to the house.

I don't have a blogging planner.  So, I'll catch you - when I catch you!

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