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 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, our best? Be the best version of ourselves
in the moment. 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?
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