Excellence vs. Perfection

A photo I took on my "excellent" trip to New Zealand, 2007

Do you need to do everything perfectly?

Perfectionism may seem like a good thing until you realize the ways in which it either pushed you to exhaustion or prevents you from even starting. Some perfectionists know a task can't be done perfectly, and so they don't want to do it at all. They procrastinate. Eventually, the task cannot be avoided, and so the perfectionist quickly does the task in a far from perfect manner. Then the perfectionist has an excuse: "well, of course it isn't perfect, I didn't have much time."

The fear of it not being perfect actually results in a lower quality outcome.

Only God can attain perfection. The rest of us need to settle for excellence. Things that are excellent are a better reflection of your best work. It will result in something 98% great instead of whatever you could come up with at the last minute, which is probably only 47% great.

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