PERFECTION

 

To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill. Constant improvement is an excellent goal, perfection is not. I am not sure perfection even exists. We may get so caught up in believing things must be “perfect” or this or that must be “perfect”. Perfect can be paralyzing. Perfection is the enemy of good. Sometimes good is good enough. If we follow one of the most fundamental rules of life, “do your best” isn't that all we can do, is our best? We can all improve, constantly. We can do the work, prepare, and get the job done in the best way we know how and that is that. If we seek “perfection” we will never get anything done, we can spend 5 hours getting 99% of the fence painted and then spend five more hours just finishing those last touches trying to eliminate all those brush stroke marks, just to make it look exactly perfectly right to the discerning eye if you can even see it, when it looked pretty darn good five hours before. What did that additional 5 hours get us?