Striving to do better is a good thing, but try to have realistic expectations. Everything in life isn\u2019t black or white; there are grey areas and some \u2018in-betweens\u2019. Everything can\u2019t be perfect all the time, and everything isn\u2019t horrible all the time. <\/p>\n
Deciding to skip a meeting or social event because you\u2019re running five minutes late or have a blemish on your face, or cancelling an entire trip because a flight is delayed, or feeling like a terrible human being over one innocent mistake, is sometimes referred to as \u2018polarising\u2019. This leads to frustration and negativity. <\/p>\n
To maintain your joy in life, you must accept that you won\u2019t be perfect all the time, and neither will the people or things around you. When you expect perfection from life, you tend to expect the same from other people. And that kind of unrealistic thinking not only meets with a great deal of disappointment when your expectations aren\u2019t met, it puts unbearable pressure on the people you care about and can eventually destroy those relationships. Why not give people a break and stop demanding something from them that they have no ability to give you? <\/p>\n
The apostle James said we all stumble, fall, and offend in many<\/i> things. So if we all make mistakes\u2014and we do\u2014learn to accept that it\u2019s just part of the human experience, and relax! Question: in what specific ways do you need to be more accepting of the \u2018imperfect areas\u2019 in your own life, or in the way someone else\u2019s imperfect areas affect you? And before you answer, think about this: \u2018Love is patient, love is kind.\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 13:4 NIV) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Striving to do better is a good thing, but try to have realistic expectations. Everything in life isn\u2019t black or white; there are grey areas and some \u2018in-betweens\u2019. Everything can\u2019t be perfect all the time, and everything isn\u2019t horrible all the time. Deciding to skip a meeting or social event because you\u2019re running five minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}