The 365 Commitment

Day 195 – The mental leap of good enough

In order to convince myself to pursue the path that I am currently on, I had to take the mental leap of “Good Enough.” This is in line with the thought that perfectuon is the enemy of progress.

I do not want or need to be a marathon runner or the world record holder in the number of consecutive pushups, rather I just need to be healthier. So I do not need to be awesome, or spectacular. I only need to be good enough.

This was a very hard mental leap for me, being just good enough has never sat well with me. I always want to strive for excellence in everything I engage in. However, as a consequence I have not amounted to be spectacular at anyone given thing.

This is because I need a foundation of things that are important that I am good enough at in order to enable me to be great and what I really want to do.

You can consider your own basics. But I need to be good enough at personal fitness, self preparation, financial planning, nutrition, earning money, spirituality, personal and family relationships. From there I can focus on what to be great at. This is a perspective I did not have growing up, but now I do. There is no shortcut around doing the basics, and figuring out how to be good enough at them.

Most my life, I have tried to be the best at many things. Of course I failed in every attempt because the foundation was not there.

I am still paying the consequence of not being good enough in many areas and feel like I am trying to make up a lifetime in a short period of time.

In essence, if you want my advice….STOP trying to be awesome at everything, and become good enough in what is important. Once you have some solid, consistent habits built around that foundation then you can venture out and try to be great at one thing.

Guy Reams (195)

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