Listen to today's episode to hear Peloton Instructor Ally Love share strategies for choosing progress over perfection.
| |  | | How to Choose Progress Over Perfection With Peloton Instructor Ally Love | | | | On today's episode of The Verywell Mind podcast, I talk with Ally Love about how she learned to stop putting so much pressure on herself to be perfect, and how allowing for mistakes actually helped her to make progress in her (many) high profile careers. | Ally has performed as a dancer and model, and is currently a host of the Brooklyn Nets, a Peloton instructor, and also the founder and CEO of Love Squad, a fitness and lifestyle website that empowers women.
Why Ally Love Is Mentally Strong
Ally's successful career path has taught her that it's important to value progress over perfection, and to cut yourself some slack as you work toward your goals.
It's a message she teaches the people she works with as well. You don't have to be perfect but you can still take a step in the right direction today.
What You'll Hear on the Show
- What to keep in mind when someone criticizes you
- The question you should ask yourself when you put pressure on yourself to be perfect
- How to recover from mistakes
- How to aim for realism over perfectionism
- How to accept that not everyone is going to like your choices
- How to stop pressuring yourself to feel happy all the time
- What to do when you're being too hard on yourself
I cannot continue to rely on this idea of everyone liking everything that I do. I have to like who I am and what I do in their lives."
What You'll Learn About Mental Health and Mental Strength
Some people assume that mental strength is about always striving to get to the top at all costs. After all, shouldn't you be strong enough to push through the pain or to persevere no matter what?
But sometimes, true strength can be seen in our attempts to make progress, rather than strive for perfection.
Taking a day off, recovering from a mistake, and rebounding from failure are part of the process.
Progress doesn't tend to come in a straight line. Sometimes things have to get a little worse before they get better.
So rather than assume you should be so strong that you never mess up, true strength can be about knowing that you're strong enough to recover when you make a mistake. | | | | | | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Healthy Mind newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. | | A DOTDASH BRAND 28 Liberty Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10005 | | | | | | | 
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