Nothing is perfect, either as we think we need it to be or it ought to be.  But we can be shocked at what can turns up in the imperfect, and we can be surprised at what can be done.

If you’re prepared to face the truth and reality of who you are, and to connect with this – I mean the deeper stuff you might not even know yourself at the moment – then you’ll see you have enough to do something quite extraordinary.  The trouble is, you’re waiting for perfect – perfect skills perfect feelings, perfect opportunity.  Well, it’s not going to get better than right now.

Anyway, it’s likely the thing you’ve just got to do is in response, or is a reaction to, an imperfect world – something you want to see working better than it does right now.

There are two kinds of imperfection.

There are unreal perfections.  These are when you’re over-criticial of yourself, most likely because of what others expect or want of you.  These are doubly crippling when you buy into them.  Firstly,  they don’t connect with your inner motivations – so they they don’t fulfil or satisfy you – and, because you’ve accepted them from a person or institution, you probably feel you’ve never don well enough.  Secondly, there’s part of you who doesn’t want to do these things, so you rebel and sabotage.

The real imperfections are your talents and abilities, your concerns and passions which really are who you are, which energise you and capture your attention again and again.  These provide an antidote to the other imperfections.

So, to sum up, the world’s not perfect, there’s no perfect time to do something, your skills and your motivations aren’t perfect.  Now we’ve got that out of the way, why not do something which will shock us at what can happen in the imperfect, and surprise yourself with some joy?