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Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Gretchen Rubin

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Gretchen Rubin
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: December 14
Author
Blogger
Motivational Speaker
Kansas City
Missouri
Gretchen Craft Rubin
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Perfect
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Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.
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Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
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Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.
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I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
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If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. Fake it 'till you feel it. maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.
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