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Progress, Not Perfection

So, I've just finished a book I've been reading entitled Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani, and I have to tell you that I was sad to have reached the last page. I was sad that my journey with this book was ending. I felt so empowered every time I sat down to read the next chapter. She had such great ideas, my two favorite were to find gratitude after you've fallen, because it's hard to be depressed when you are looking at the things that make you grateful. The second is that no matter what, we should not look at our sisters out there as opponents, but instead to be each others' cheerleaders. I like this because it gets us out of the caddishness mindset and into one of seeing each other as part of a sisterhood, where we share our successes as well as that of our sisters'. I love the idea of supporting each other and doing our best to all succeed. I'm thinking about this a lot and how it relates to progress, not perfection, a term I have learned from Alco...