What permission do you need to give yourself?

Here are my "aha" moments from day 1 of the Gifts of Imperfection with Dr. Brene Brown.

Dr. Brown found in her research that 85% of adults recall a time that was so shaming it forever changed what they thought of themselves.  50% of those were around creativity.

Whoa - like the time in third grade when I tried to make a gift for my mother in a school art project that involved, clay, paint, and firing.  It was torture for me because I am not naturally artistic.  Finally I found something I could put together that involved little more than rolling clay into logs and putting them together to fashion some distant relative of a wiener dog.  

My wonderful mother prominently displayed it in our home forever it seemed, and I cringed every time I saw it.  

So here I am, voluntarily making another attempt at art...for the heart, this time.   Here are the new rules:

1. I give myself permission to kick perfection to the curb. 
2. I give myself permission to quell the criticism. 
3.  I give myself permission to see and be seen. 
4.  I give myself permission to play.

What do you need to give yourself permission to be, do or have?

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