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Episode 297: Making Mistakes
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Today, I'm going to talk about mistakes.
Something that I'm going to be honest, I am not very excited about. Meaning that like I don't even want to admit to you, let alone myself, I'm not perfect.
Because my name is Peter Pamela Perfection Rose.
And just like things to be all neat and buttoned up and look good.
And here's the thing, when I started this podcast, I remember the first few actually the first episode I did, it took me two hours to do it.
And then I finally said to myself, there is no way I will ever do this, or keep this up if this is how long it's going to take me.
Because I was trying to get it perfect and I was trying to say, oh, I'm going to do one thing and it's going to be like this, to only find out that maybe that wasn't the best way.
And so what I decided was, is that in this weekly podcast, come what may, no matter what, I was going to do one every week.
And sometimes I batch them. I do a few in advance.
But I never really do more than four in advance.
So always, what you're hearing, I've recorded very recently.
And the other thing that I decided was that I was just going to be who I was. I wasn't going to edit unless it was absolutely necessary.
Absolutely necessary, including the interviews, because what I wanted you to see was that you could accomplish something, and not be perfect. And come on. If you've been listening to my podcast, you've heard me stumble. You've heard me say things wrong. You've heard me go off, get lost on a tangent and come back.
You have heard me make so many mistakes.
And I've just recorded a podcast, because I am batching this one but like I said, you will be hearing it very soon. Where I really felt like at the end I went off and then a phone call came in and I just felt off and I was like, Ugh, should I re record?
And I said, No. No, I shouldn't. Because again, what I want to show you is, what I want to emulate in my work is that you don't have to be perfect, that this is a podcast that if you're expecting perfection, you're not going to get it, okay?
Go listen to somebody else. I'm not perfect. I'm not going to do this podcast perfectly, but what I always will be is honest, and I will always be talking from the heart.
A lot of my older clients call me mama bear and they are my baby bears.
And I feel what a good mama bear does is she teaches her baby bear how to fish.
And she teaches through example.
And that's always how I wanna teach. And when I talk about the core work, I'm always talking about the work that I've Guinea pigged on myself, on my own, anxiety, on my own imperfection, on my own character defects, and then coach you to do it.
Because I figure if I have done it with myself, coaching you is a piece of cake because I have to go up against all of my own messiness and I do it with lots of mistakes.
So I have a couple of books I'm going to be reading from today and talking about this mistakedom.
The first one is actually a Hazelden meditation book called In God's Care.
It starts with a quote from Ethel Barrymore. How appropriate. "You grow up the day you have your first real laug