Don't hide yourself from yourself and others. Pretense provides nothing of value in the present, and nothing but regret in the future. This day is too beautiful to spend it as someone you're not. Allow your own true beauty the space to live and to flourish. In all those choices you make, choose sincerity. Enjoy knowing and sharing the power of the real you. You are so much more than a flat, boring, predictable image. You are the essence of life itself, complex, vulnerable, curious, loving, and passionate. Forget about whether it will make you look good or not. Do what you care about, what makes a real difference, what resonates with all you love and value. Be the real you and live the real richness. Nothing you could pretend is as valuable and precious as who you truly are. Perfection is a worthy goal which we can only hope to reach through accepting imperfection. In order to get it exactly right, you must be willing to repeatedly get it wrong. Success is achieved only by accepting the very real possibility of defeat. It is highly unlikely that you'll ever get anything right on the first attempt. Or the second, third, or fourth. Achievement is a process of continual learning and improvement. Those who come closest to perfection are those who have experienced the most imperfection. In order to find your dream house, you must look through a lot of not-so-dreamy homes. In order to find the ideal employee, you must interview a lot of less-than-ideal candidates for the job. In order to find a valuable customer, you must sift through many prospects.