I love this affirmation which I steal from Dr: Julia Mossbridge — I have the heartfelt benevolent desire that you should be able to achieve your highest fulfillment whatever that may be. Or, that I earnestly want you to love and be loved without anything needing to change.

Do you see enough unconditional love?

Are you able to say to your children that you love them and that they should be able to love themselves and others without anything needing to change?

Do you see leaders, of any kind, telling those they lead that they earnestly want them to achieve their highest fulfillment whatever that ends up being?

Do you tell yourself, daily, that you are already in a condition worthy of love and being able to love just as things are? That you’re already perfect.

Perfection, the dictionary definition of the word, is to have all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.

You have that. You are, by definition, perfection . You have all that is required and desirable — you are capable of maximizing your fulfillment in this moment, you are worthy of being loved by others just as you are, and you are worthy of loving yourself fully at this moment — full stop.

It’s such a relief for me to know that I achieved the thing that you and I are entitled to — perfection. And it’s an even greater relief to know that you have too. And, it’s hard to quantify and describe the relief I have believe that everyone on this planet has achieved the same. At this point what’s left to do?

Yes, this sounds like a self-help platitude — “easier said than done, Brady” or “so you’re saying I can just do nothing?” I am not saying that because you already perfect don’t work; I argue the opposite. That because you are capable of unconditional love and because you have everything you need you have no reason but to work!

Whatever that work is, is up to you. For me, it’s helping people at my day job, it’s giving people an aural tonic that is music, it’s writing here, it’s expanding my mind by reading, it’s talking with others, it’s people disagreeing with me, it’s me disagreeing with me, it’s hiking, it’s noticing, it’s the activity of being alive. I’m sure that’s not all.

I’ll end with that the title of the blog is about not striving towards perfection since you’re already perfect. Instead, I recommend striving towards delivering as much value as you can to others — maximize your service to others — by using what’s already perfect about you.

Last modified on 2026-02-03