Living to the Extreme

In my life, I tend to live out the extremes. Things have to be one way or the other, or all or nothing. Although this can be good when it comes to the amount of time and effort I devote to my homework (I tend to lean towards the all on the spectrum rather than the nothing), there are areas of my life that this is not so good in. Learning and growth are two things that are a process. When things are a process, we can't look at them and decide whether we are going to give it our all or nothing. If we try and have it all at once, we are going to fail. We are not going to grow all at once. The knowledge that we acquire is not going to happen over night. But the other option, giving nothing and basically giving up, is not going to help us either. When we choose this option, we are cheating ourselves out of growing. I know that this is an area that is a daily struggle for me. On top of this, I am also a perfectionist. I think that a lot of perfectionist tendencies come out of this idea that we have to have it one way or the other. If it is not absolutely perfect, then we might as well give up. Today, I am going to take time to process the idea that life is more than just the extremes. I can choose to focus on the process of growth and how I am going to bring myself to a place where I am not living in the extremes.