Do It Imperfectly

I heard a short clip the other day made by the Grammy-winning artist, Doechii, before she was a Grammy-winning artist, and it went a little bit like this:

Write your music; it is going to be bad; it is going to be bad until it is good. It is okay for it to be bad, that is the art of creation, and you cannot make good music unless you are willing to push through the process of bad writing.

Now, this is not an exact quote, and she said it much better than I paraphrased, but it gets to the heart of this post. 

I know a lot of people before her have resounded similar words, but something about the timing in which they reached my ears, coming from a clip in a time before she became something she is today, just hit a little differently.

I know a lot of people struggle with this because there is no way I am alone in this. If Doechii breathed the words that hit my wavelength at the time in which they needed to, it is because so many other people needed to hear it too.

What you are trying to accomplish isn’t a perfectly executed essay, a fully realized novel, an absolute masterpiece of artwork, the best business plan, or anything along the same lines. What you are trying to accomplish is the active act of creation, the imperfect scribbles on a page, the commas and grammar all messed up, the painting melting on the canvas in a way you wish they didn’t. When you allow yourself to be messy, to be a failure, to do something and have it be bad, you open yourself up to doing something better next time, or the next time, or the next.

Being alive is being willing to fail, learn, and get back up again. No one becomes an overnight sensation. No one has the perfect relationship at first glance. No one can achieve anything without first taking the risk of looking silly, feeling dumb, asking stupid questions, and overall following their childlike curiosity and pursuits. 

By allowing yourself the space to fail, you allow the release of doing anything perfect, and allow yourself to at least start, to at least be. You might end up really loving the outcome, and maybe you don’t, but each practice is a step in the right direction to accomplishing the life you want to lead, the legacy you want to leave behind. 

If you are struggling with picking one thing to focus on, pick one thing at a time, and do it imperfectly. Another day pick something different and do it imperfectly. Get so good at just trying to do things imperfectly. Release the pressure of being amazing, and just be. Being is the amazing thing after all. 

Doing it imperfectly means trusting yourself enough to use the 24 hrs you have in the day to be present now. Trust that today's failures are making the pathway to tomorrow's success. 

I believe in you! Do you believe in you?

With love,

Taba