These are my truths. These are my imperfections. And these reasons why my blog will never be perfect.
- I don’t post every day.
- I’m pretty the grammar Gods frown upon me with each post.
- I don’t have the best food photography skills –> but at least they are improving.
- I’ve had a light box (for food photography) since last year and haven’t even used it.
- I just had to drop out of a relay running race.
- I still don’t feel like running much, still needing that mental break. Trails and hiking will always be needed though.
- I served multiple Frozen dinners this last week because we really had no food and no time. Hey, they were good, gluten free, and on sale! Plus if you add a little salsa and avocado, it totally counts has homemade, right?
- I’m trying to monetize my blog more—> there, I said it. (see side bar)
It’s called being HUMAN. Isn’t that what blogging is about? Sharing our humanness? I think so.
If my blog were perfect, I’d be living a lie. I wouldn’t be embracing my space, I’d be covering it up with a nice pretty pink blanket.
Bolder blogging is about sharing (and working on) your weaknesses while still embracing your STRENGTHS. Or what I like to call… YOUR SWEET SPOT.
Sure I’d like to write a gluten free cookbook, start shipping Healthy Bites again, run a marathon or a trail race, start a family, and be at every one of my husband’s races.
But…
That would be too perfect. So I’m embracing what I am good at now, what I am THANKFUL FOR now. And will continue to follow GOD’s perfect plan, wherever that may lead us.
I read this devotional by Max Lucado this morning and it all just clicked.
Attempts at self-salvation guarantee nothing but exhaustion. We scamper and scurry, trying to please God, collecting merit badges and brownie points, and scowling at anyone who questions our accomplishments.
Stop it! Once and for all, enough of this frenzy. “Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace, not by obeying rules” (Heb. 13:9 NCV). Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who are perfect and sinless.” Just the opposite. “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28 NASB).
So cheers to being imperfect! Cheers to weaknesses, because without them, we’d all be quite boring.
LC
p.s.
Did you know that I actually failed Brownies as a kid? Yep, I didn’t even make it to be a Girl Scout. Definitely no Brownie points here. 
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Thanks for sharing the post..
good post
very nice post
Cheers to you! I am so imperfect too! That is life and it is beautiful in its mess!
i agree friend. we all have a beautiful mess
It’s called being HUMAN. Isn’t that what blogging is about? Sharing our humanness?<< LOVE this! So true!
Yes!! Totally!
Love!!!!!!! So relatable and truthful 🙂
thanks nicole. I hope to always be truthful, indeed!
I can totally relate to this {and bet a lot of people can too}! It’s easy to get caught up in the comparison trap, focusing on the things that you could have/should have done, wondering what if, or dwelling on the things that didn’t go as planned. I love your positive outlook. Optimism will always overpower pessimism!
i try, but hope i can be real and always know that it’s okay not be positive 24/7 right? haha
Thank you for being honest!! I think blogging is like social media…we tend to only share the high lights or the best moments. This can make those reading feel like their life isn’t as good or as perfect. I know we are all guilty of it! It’s hard to share the bad moments (and honestly some bad moments should be kept private). Being genuine though, is a blessing to others!! Thank you so much for the reminder and for this post!!
i so agree friend! and i am so glad we can share the realness but also be respectful of what doesn’t need to be shared, ya know?
My blog will always be a little-league hot mess for oh-so many reasons. I for, one, ADORE your blog and have from the very start, almond joy! I wish I had time to comment more but I’m glad I get to multi-stalk you through FB, IG, Twitter, and the blog too. Heart you so!
Oh and it better count as homemade if you add an avo!!! That’s my trick lately! #lifeiscrazy
ohh i love you! i know you are super busy. So don’t ever feel like you need to catch up here. Just glad we have IG and FB to stalk! <3 Your almond joy
I’ve always loved your blog and although I don’t regularly comment I enjoy each post you create. I love your style of bolder and everything is not perfect type of blogging. I honestly struggle reading peoples blog that are perfect because I cannot relate.
I love your style and your realness! i know we can’t always posts on each others blogs all the time, but i am so glad we are still connected! p.s. who won the healthy bites giveaway on your site?
Cheers to that!! Your candor is appreciated and definitely resonates with so many of us.
AMEN
I love your imperfect blog 🙂 cute post, love the honesty xo
thank you tatum! that means a lot.
I think this is a great post because as bloggers we tend to put so much pressure on ourselves to post all the time, and for things to be perfect. If I posted all the time, I would get less sleep, get less work done at home, have less down time, yoga time and just chill out time. That’s why I stick to about one post a week because blogging is not high on my list of priorities. I am.
Btw, I do think your blog is pretty ‘perfect:’ I wish I had the readership you do!
well i have friends that are readers. so it’s like just chatting with them all the time. haha. And i love how you put your life first! that is balance friend xxoo
Love this. Love you. We are imperfectly perfect.
Jesus loves your hot mess, and mine too 🙂
Happy weekend pretty lady!
thank you friend! i love that. so true! hot mess and Jesus loves me!
I just love the whole message behind this – sometimes I get so caught up in that I need to be better blogger, all the time, better better better. But I don’t! Because just like in life, I can’t (and shouldn’t) be *everything* – I should enjoy where I’m at NOW, embrace my imperfections, and use the talents and strengths I have!
it is easy to get “caught” friend, until you realize that you need to SNAP out of it, right?
I think our imperfections are what make us – us!
I like bloggers more when they ADMIT their flaws. I definitely am a little self-effacing – it makes me human. Plus, it’s a lot funnier and you can relate to them SO MUCH EASIER. I love your blog because you’re just so you! If everyone was perfect, blogs wouldn’t be as much fun to read.
Hehe – I love this. I’m certainly far from perfect too, in fact imperfections are typically what I like about people. It’s what makes us interesting. 🙂
Oh I agree! Quirks are cool
Seriously, I love this so much. I read this on my phone this morning as I was walking down the street (I know, terrible) but I had such a big smile on my face. I definitely wouldn’t want to see this beautiful space covered up by a pink blanket (nothing against pink blankies) because YOU are beautiful and real and true.
Might need to copy this 🙂
so true!! Bravo to you!!
Let me know if you do!
Human is good. I like your honesty. 😉
And yet WE all LOVE your blog! There isn’t a right way to blog, you blog with your heart and it shows and makes people happy! Making $$ is important too, you can and should say loud and proud 🙂
Thank you friend! That means a lot
wait a second! iPhone pictures aren’t awesome?!? 🙂
Yours are the exception
Perfectly imperfect my friend!! Perfect blogs scare me. And I don’t have the intention to have a perfect one either. Nor my life – imperfect is authentic and relatable, which is again perfect!
keeping it real, as always. You might think you’re blog isn;t perfect but damn its close to it.
ahh shucks. thanks buddy
I had no idea you could fail at being a brownie? LOL I can’t believe they didn’t pass you. I mean hello your a kid, and I’m sure you were a little cutie pie. Every girl needs badges to gloat about 🙂
p.s. no ones perfect & if we could be, can you imagine how boring would life be?!!
haha yes, you can fail… I DID! LOL
we are no where near being perfect with our blog either. there are so many things we need to do to fix it up, but don’t have the time or the money. and you are so right about embracing it all, even the weaknesses! love ya!
I actually think that you have just about the perfect blog because of all of the above. Who want to read about perfection? BORING!!! (I’d eat a lot more pre-made food if my husband wouldn’t probably go on a hunger strike 🙂 ).
Hahaha yes! Love it! Thanks debbie
I’m actually not human. I am a grammar god. Who secretly calls you out on everything. EVERYTHING I TELL YOU. BOOM SHAKA – LAKA! Except… I am allowed to make all the grammar errors I want in my comments, because as I said, I am a GOD and I can do what I want?!
That being said, I think I will grant you the gift of being able to be HUMAN and not having perfect grammar, and being allowed to post whenever the F you want… AND you are sure as hell allowed to whore your blog out on the corner of Hollywood and Vine! GO FOR IT TIGER! GROAR!!
I, too, failed Brownies! And like you, I feel like a less-than-perfect blogger most days. Your post today is encouraging. Thank you for that!
yes! i love that we can be imperfect together!
glad we are not alone Johnna. Hugs!
How can I love you more than I did yesterday??? Your honesty ROCKS. INSPIRES. AMUSES. xo
and i love you more!
Oh my gosh, can I just cut and paste this straight into my next blog post?!! lol! This is exactly what I am feeling. Thanks for keeping it real.
yes, post! can’t wait
Perfection isn’t real, so I wouldn’t want your blog to be perfect. I like it and you just the way you are: open, honest, and real.
I was scared to be a brownie. I thought they were going to take me away from parents, put me in the oven and turn me into a real brownie. I was a strange kid; so literal.
I love it. Literally! I shall ban brownies for life
LOVE YOU & THIS!!!!!!! OMG, I understand!!!! I have debated writing a post about who cares about grammar & spelling because so many bloggers I love & read & read me go on & on about this. Personally, I don’t care – we are all human. I use spell check & still have spelling errors. I read & read again & still have errors & grammar mistakes. I am not a writer, I am a blogger, a person, just someone that wants to share stuff. If I am judged that way vs. my want to just share, well, I just can’t care about it…
AND, yes, I don’t blog more than 3 times a week now. IT may be less in the future. You saw my post Friday about how I will be sharing my brand love at the end of post & what I make money on to help me thru this very difficult time. Lots of others do it! If I could, I would buy from people! If I get back on my feet again, I will!
I love you for this oh so open & raw post & for you embracing it all! HUGS!!!!!!!
I’m so glad you agree friend. And I love who you are!!! Sharing your life, your brands, your purpose
My blog will never be perfect because perfection doesn’t exist. Instead of striving for it, we should be living an imperfect life in radical amazement 😀 I heart you… even more so now that I know you failed Brownies — ditto to that <3
Now you know all the reasons I love you. You are perfectly imperfect just like the rest of us. You keep us all real and grounded! Plus… in our imperfection it shows HIS perfection..right?
Yes, yes, YES! Once again, just another reason I love you and your blog. Re: Healthy Bites … so, are you not making/shipping them right now? I just saw them on Lindsay’s List and was reminded that I want to try them.
I love how real you are <3
You are perfectly imperfect, my friend.
Sorry to hear about the replay.
relay –> 🙁
Nobody likes perfection, really, anyway. Keep doing what you do and it will be perfectly YOU. 🙂
that’s the hardest thing for. Learning to be less of a perfectionist, because all it does is cause a critical attitude towards myself. I am always scared of what others will think or say if I don’t always have dinner cooked or do my morning run. I love this post!! NO one is perfect that’s why we have our Heavenly Father!! Thank GOD for this!!
As always, loved this 🙂 I try to embrace my imperfections (of which there are many) but I’m not always the best at it!
I love your honesty, your flaws, and YOU! Great post #crazycotter! XO
Love this…I kind of needed it! 🙂
I didn’t fail Brownies, but I didn’t pass either. I mean, I walked over that bridge (the “rite of passage’ as it were) and then stuck my tongue out, figuratively, at the Girls Scouts. I was over it. Never a Girl Scout either. The only good thing about them, if you ask me, is the cookies. And they aren’t even that good.
This is exactly why I love your (well written) blog. Authenticity at its best.
I LOVE this post, probably one of my favorites friend! it goes in line with my mantra to embrace the perfectly imperfect! THAT is where the beauty is, isn’t it?! As for the Brownies? I cheated to get badges, there, I said it. so I would have failed too 😉 xoxox LOVE your words and wisdom ALWAYS!
i failed, you cheated.. bahaha. i love it!
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28 NASB)” made me tear up. My weakness and faults just keep coming up– in fact, I am one big ball of weakness and fault. It’s not recognizing my faults that is the tough part for me, for me it is allowing Him to let me rest–or even seeing what “rest” looks like that is so difficult for me. I think it’s accepting our weakness that is the “rest” part– and that I can do…on occasion.
Thank you for being transparent & open – I strive to do that too.
yup, time to stop and smell the roses we have. I am so done with the frenzy. Thank you for your ‘humanness’ my dear friend… love you! xo
What is this “perfect blog” of which you speak?
Ps – I will now spend inordinate time each post clicking through to ALL the ads. LOL. Just call me Miss-Clix-A-Lot!
oh this comment just made my day! You know i freakin love you!
ANDDDDD I love this. I feel the same way- that I am not perfect and my blog will never reflect perfection… which is EXACTLY how I like it.
and why i love every bit of YOU
keepin it real is what we love about you!
I love this – I’m right there with you on being unperfect! I can’t even imagine trying to pretend for one second that my life and/or blog was any other way – I think that would wear me out!
The fact that you are so open and honest about everything here is why so many people (including me) love your blog!!
But don’t you see – the imperfectness of it is what’s perfect! It’s all YOU.
Weird because I’ve always thought you DO have the prefect blog! Your posts are always full of wisdom and strength. I look forward to reading them!
Perfect is overrated! I will take real and genuine any day!
this is amazing! i am brand new blogger and find myself freaking out about blogging everyday, how my pictures look, my grammar etc..thank you so much for this, and thank you for being REAL! 🙂
see ADRIENNE run
….that is why i love reading realistic blogs that shares both ups and downs. blogging is not an easy task and there is always room for improvement Lindsay. Thanks for keeping it real 🙂
Such a great post, Lindsay! Even though your blog isn’t perfect, it’s pretty darn great … and that applies to so much in life. Striving for perfection just sets us up for failure (because we’ll never get there!), rather than allowing us to realize all the great things we’re doing. I couldn’t agree more with so many of these – my photography started at abysmal, so every little improvement helps! And I don’t blame you for a nanosecond on trying to monetize your blog – as long as the content stays true to you, I say go for it!
I like this post 🙂 I like your blog. I like your honesty and your authenticity 🙂
1. You are amazing.
2. I love Max Lucado devotionals – always so powerful and manage to “speak to me” just when I need it!
3. Your posts make me smile.
4. I love you!
Thanks for all the great tips. I have posts backing up to write and haven’t had the motivation lately. Hopefully some of these will help. Thanks!
Your words made me smile this morning. Brownie points there! Real. Have a great Tuesday!
I really love this! I know how you feel sometimes you just feel off and no one is perfect! I for one LOVE your blog and everything about it! I love your honesty! I know the grammar gods probably hate me as well but I do the best I can with blogging. I know I for one would buy your cookbook! 🙂
Way to keep it real sista!! I have one of these types of posts brewing. It was nearly completely written, in my head, and then this kids needed me and poof.
Aaaand, this is exactly why I love your blog Lindsay! Your honest and real – that’s what I love most in a blogger and you totally fit the bill! xoxox
HAHAHAAA I bought a light box too and haven’t touched it!!! I figure it’s a process and while it is my business now so I try to focus on improvements…I am a one woman show, doing what I can.
Love this. Needed this. Might copy this:)
go for it!
Keep being you, lady. 🙂
I just love your blog the way it is. It’s perfect to me because it’s the real you! No fluff 😉 Reason #1 why your the first blog I upon waking!!
Love you, your honesty and your blog! Imperfections are perfect! Life would be boring if we all ran the same lives and same blogs. Keep doing what you’re doing lady! xoxo
Oh, Brother… I heart you. Ditto to all of that. Even the Brownies. They didn’t exactly invite me to continue on. Oops.
and this is why we love your blog!!!!