For many years, I would have classified myself as a perfectionist.

I was always looking down on myself if things weren’t exactly as they should be. I planned for weeks trying to make the best Christmas Eve dinner for my family and made sure the kitchen was stuffed full of snacks when Dylan, my brother-in-law, arrived home for visits from the military.

Lizi Arbogast Gwin is the managing editor of Tallapoosa Publishers.

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