Happiful January 2020
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Embrace<br />
imperfection<br />
Book<br />
Review<br />
Living your best life doesn’t have to mean nailing everything first<br />
time. Discover how to stop comparing, and start living<br />
Writing | Bonnie Evie Gifford<br />
New year,<br />
new you,<br />
and all that<br />
other jazz<br />
that – let’s be honest –<br />
is normally forgotten<br />
before <strong>January</strong>’s over.<br />
We all start off with<br />
the best intentions, but<br />
how many of us really<br />
stick to our resolutions?<br />
I can’t even remember<br />
what mine was last year<br />
– can you?<br />
Making positive<br />
changes is always a<br />
commendable effort. So<br />
why do we wait until an<br />
arbitrary time of year<br />
to get started? Better<br />
yet, why do so many of<br />
us give up on our new<br />
goals after just one little<br />
slip-up?<br />
Author Candi Williams’<br />
new book, How To<br />
Be Perfectly Imperfect,<br />
seeks to address our<br />
problem with perfection,<br />
overcome feelings that<br />
may be holding us back,<br />
and start learning how<br />
to love ourselves – quirks<br />
and all.<br />
The problem with<br />
perfection<br />
Every day we’re<br />
bombarded with images<br />
of perfection. From<br />
the moment we wake<br />
up to see the perfect<br />
smiles of presenters<br />
on morning TV, to the<br />
adverts on the Tube<br />
during our morning<br />
commute, right along<br />
to hours lost scrolling<br />
through Instagram in<br />
the evening.<br />
We take in so many<br />
messages about<br />
perfection, it’s no<br />
wonder we feel the<br />
pressure. But as author<br />
Candi explains, perfect<br />
doesn’t equal happy.<br />
The best way to be<br />
happy is to stop trying to<br />
be perfect.<br />
Often disguised as<br />
ambition, drive, or<br />
motivation, while these<br />
can be good things,<br />
as Candi explores<br />
throughout her book,<br />
when we set impossibly<br />
high standards for<br />
ourselves, it can become<br />
exhausing. When we<br />
start seeing anything<br />
less than perfection<br />
as failure, we risk<br />
ignoring our successes<br />
and progress. Instead,<br />
our aim should be to<br />
be better than we were<br />
yesterday.<br />
Filled with quotes,<br />
thought-provoking<br />
definitions, and simple<br />
tasks to help readers<br />
break out of their<br />
perfectionist mindset<br />
and start creating<br />
healthier, more<br />
sustainable habits, each<br />
chapter gets readers to<br />
reconsider their need<br />
to strive for perfection,<br />
and to start living more<br />
mindfully.<br />
Overcoming that<br />
feeling of not being<br />
good enough<br />
Throughout Perfectly<br />
Imperfect, the author<br />
reminds readers that<br />
they are human. We all<br />
have our limits, flaws,<br />
and needs. These are<br />
things to be celebrated<br />
and embraced, not<br />
overcome or to feel<br />
ashamed of. Through<br />
simple, easy to try<br />
exercises, learn to
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