I’ve Stopped Trying to Optimize Every Part of My Life

I spent most of my life believing I needed to improve myself. There was always another habit to build, another routine to fix, another version of me I was trying to become. Eventually, I started to realize that all the optimizing wasn’t making me feel better—it was making me feel more exhausted. This is a reflection on what changed when I stopped trying to fix every part of my life and started letting things be. The post I’ve Stopped Trying to Optimize Every Part of My Life first appeared on Embrace The Unseen.