By Anthony Meindl | Posted March 20, 2014, 3 p.m.

Stop getting caught up on how you think things are supposed to look.

Feelings, love, careers, connections, possibilities: When you give up the form in which you think these things must appear, youre instead open to the miracle of them showing up all around you all the time, in ways that are a lot more joyful and unexpected than you could have ever planned.

Part of our problem is that we feel we have to have things lined up in a definitive way before we feel like we can take the leap.

So before you can ask the girl out on a date you have to have your shit together. Before you start auditioning you need to redo your headshots, and before you move to a bigger city, you have to make sure you have money in the bank account.

These postponements keep us stuck in the idea of the fantasy of how its going to look once we get there.

The irony is that youll never get there if you stay stuck on the idea.

Theres nothing wrong with being unsettled or doubtful, or not entirely together while were out in the world. Theres nothing wrong with falling down as we attempt to walk. Thats how we learn.

Youre never going to have it all together. Ever. So if you keep putting your life on hold for greater perfection before you can do other things, youll find out youve postponed half your life.

If you let life show you how to participate, it will, but it requires us to get out of our heads that create so many distractions and reasons why we cant, that we miss it entirely.

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