Are you fixated upon progress, perfection, conformity and achievement?  If so, have you thought about the cost of this way life? 

• How often do you experience the feeling of truly enjoying yourself?
• Are you able to laugh at yourself like a good old friend or are you your own worst enemy, endlessly berating yourself? 
• When was the last time you stopped to admire the infinite and transitory wonders of nature?
• You have one life, are you spending it wisely?

If you have deep rooted patterns of perfectionism and other traits of the exceedingly driven, it can help to utilize a framework to foster change.  Today, I seek to open your mind to the framework of Wabi Sabi.

Wabi-Sabi is a way of living.

The Japanese cultivated “wabi-sabi;” 

“Wabi” connotes rustic simplicity, quietness or understated elegance;

“Sabi” means beauty or serenity that comes with age.

There are seven principles for achieving wabi-sabi: 

Fukinsei: asymmetry, irregularity; 
Kanso: simplicity; 
Koko: basic...