Enemy of Success

I have heard it said perfection is the enemy of success.  I tend to agree. Perfection is the enemy of accomplishment; productivity and success in life. It took me many years of adult life to grasp the concept of "good enough". We need to learn when adequate is good enough. This is not a license to live a sloppy, haphazard, bumbling life, but to help accomplish more with the resources God has blessed us with. Neither haphazard nor perfection lead to productivity.

Dream. Dream big and dream always, but get up and "set your hand to the plow". Get dirty, sweaty and bleed a little. Take your lumps. Fail. Get up and fail again. Better to fail continuously than to sit in a corner "wishing". You learn nothing from sitting and wishing. You learn much from failing. You develop character through failing. If you sit and wish, or worse yet if you stop wishing and just sit, your thoughts turn inward and the answer is not in you.

If you are like me and suffer from the perfectionist disease. If you constantly put off tasks or projects because you cannot complete them to perfection. I would like to encourage you to evaluate your productivity in life. Could you accomplish more if you could accept "good enough"? God has entrusted us with many resources to manage for Him. He has given each of us a mission that requires using those resources to help others. They will not be helped if we withhold them in the name of perfection. God is not looking for perfection from us.  He's looking for us to love others.  That's an action word that carries the idea of giving charitably. "Good enough" accomplishes so much more for others than perfection.