Pearls and imperfections

I can just be, with all my pearls and imperfections. You also can just be, everyone can just be with all their pearls and imperfections.

That sounds nice and is, at least for me, not easy to achieve. I would therefore like to share my experiences, with the aim of inspiring you.

Just be here, for yourself and others

Since “doing” is my second nature this isn’te easy for me. Thinking fast, talking and acting easily, all very practical in daily life, especially combines with creativity, inventiveness and lots of pragmatism to come to results. Regularly I go to fast and do to much. For others, and if I am honest to myself also for myself if I listen to my energy level. People who know me will recognize this. Do you recognize this in yourself or someone you care about?

Be there, including all you pearls and imperfections.

This also means that both can be seen, so don’t worry hiding them anymore. Easier said than done, is my experience.

I don’t know how this is with you, but I don’t flaunt with my pearls. I like it and at the same time feel uncomfortable when others notice and mention them. “It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” is a famous quote of Marianne Williamson for that reason.

And showing my imperfections is another hard thing. My mind is telling me that it’s better to hide them, ever since I was a kid that was bullied at school. That voice is still calling at me “What will others think about this, do you still belong with them if you’re not perfect, will you still get the interesting assignments?”

How do you find back in yourself what you have hidden for so long?

Which pearls and imperfections are hidden in my "being"? I suppress the tendency to search and name from my "doing" reflex, because I now know that I am not going to find the real hidden treasure (and shit) with it. I let it go and occasionally discover something beautiful or something less beautiful in myself. That happens, for example, in the shower (and is not just about my body), during a walk or a good conversation. Or when working with horses because you really do not fool them with beautiful words and they see and feel what we cannot figure out ourselves with our head.

The art of being as an artwork

During our leadership programs, there is a creative moment to also reflect from our right hemisphere. I usually shoot in my "doing" reflex there again. Recently I was looking at the white canvas and I thought of "Being pure, with all my pearls and imperfections", so I made this artwork with minimal effort in a short time. Only the next morning did I see the power and beauty of this thought and my artwork. I made a bigger version of it together with my father, who is an artist. It was nice to be in his studio together, something I had wanted for a long time and for which I didn't allow myself time so far. I got my creative pearl from him in my DNA. And this version is now hanging in my home office as a reminder that often "just being" is enough.

Do you want to see the artwork and have an inspiring conversation about our pearls and imperfections, then you know where to find me.

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