Finding Perfection Without Being Perfect
12 July, 2008 - Blogging, Motivation - 4 Comments
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I’m a perfectionist. In everything I do.
Sport, writing, designing, creating, travelling. Everything.I strive to be the best. Not because I’m a calculated individual set on self and world domination. No. Not at all.
Rather, I’m just that type of person. If a job, hobby, passion or test is to be done, I don’t see any interest in not striving to be perfect.
But sometimes we can’t be perfect. And that’s ok, because we can at least say we tried to be prefect. I hope.
Occasionally, being a perfectionist (that is, striving to be the best you can be), gets in the way of life.
This blog says everything about who I am. It shines my being through in a 2d computer screen. My spirituality. My mind set. My life. And my perfectionism.
You only have to know I’ve redesigned this blog nine times in the past four years to understand my constant desire for fullness.
And that leads me to this fine day. Saturday. 10 minutes ago.
I knew I wanted to write today. I tried to search my mind for an idea. I had plenty. Really. But none of them were perfect.
And nothing is worth writing unless it’s perfect. I thought. Perfection, occasionally, gets in the way of life.
Then, a Revelation
After much careful thought, I understood that I wanted to write today, and what I wrote about wouldn’t matter. How I wrote about it, and how much energy I release in the writing is what would really matter.
Because, if I try my best to perfectly write on an imperfect topic, I will have succeeded in perfection.
If you try your best to be perfect in life at an imperfect situation, you will have succeeded in perfection.
Perfection is amazing. But don’t let perfection get in the way of being perfect. Be free. Be you!Are you a perfectionist? Do you sometimes struggle to get past the barriers perfection can often contain? Let us know in the comments.
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Posted on 12 July, 2008 by Jamie Harrop
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Hi Jamie,
I like your thought that, as long as we try our best (strive to be perfect), then we will have succeeded.
All too often, we back out of doing something because we don’t think we’ll succeed. So, we end up never knowing what might have happened.
To me, not knowing because we didn’t give it a go, is worse than trying and failing.
All we can do is our best. That’s all we can ever ask of ourselves
Hey Scott,
Hope your saturday is going well and the weather is as good as it was this morning.
“To me, not knowing because we didn’t give it a go, is worse than trying and failing.”
That is so true, and such a powerful sentence.
As I said on Twitter, thank you very much for submitting this post to StumbleUpon. I truly appreciate it.
Thanks for the fantastic comment.
Jamie - I’ve wasted so much time putting things to one side to finish later, because they’re not perfect. Trouble is, they’re usually not things that need to be perfect. And the habit stops me from getting things done. I’m trying my best to do things until they’re good enough.
Now, I do want to strive for perfection in the things that matter - like the novel I’m writing. It’s just the silly little things I really need to let go of.
Cath Lawson’s last blog post..Why I Don’t Like Zen Habits
Hey Cath,
You’re not alone. I too have spent so much time trying to be perfect.
Eventually, you just have to accept that all you can do is try your best with what you have and that’s the only way to avoid perfection stopping you from getting things done.