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Lori Fields: Striving For Imperfection

November 26, 2008 - 10:12am 155 reads 0 comments

It’s easy to join in with your friends and agree that you too feel bad about eating ice cream today or skipping the gym.

But our true strength and our true beauty lie in our ability to maintain our sense of self even when it means going against the crowd. Those women who accept their imperfections, who aren’t afraid to use their voice, who stand up for who they are right now and who they are trying to become are the ones who shine. These are the women who deserve to be admired.

You have only this lifetime to be the person you imagine yourself to be, and what a tragedy it would be, to waste that lifetime striving to be something you are not. What do you want your contribution to be? Certainly it is far deeper than shapes and sizes and inches and numbers.

Once you celebrate all the pieces of you, you open yourself up to succeed in ways you never thought possible.

Realize that only you have the power to believe that you are beautiful, bold, courageous, brilliant, and perfectly imperfect. So go ahead, define for yourself what is means to be a real beauty.

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