Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

[Ronni]

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." I don't know who to attribute that quote to.


I need to have this tattooed on my forehead! One of my faults is that "good enough for right now" is NOT good enough for me because it's not perfect! I am struggling and learning, on a daily basis, that it's OK for something, including me, to be a work in progress, to be a fluid, nuanced movement in the right direction even if I still can't see the finish line! That I am OK right now, that what I'm doing is OK right now, even if right now doesn't include the perfection that I'm aspiring to.

This is a hard lesson for me. What about you?

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Gary O']

This is a hard lesson for me. What about you?

I'm not sure my problem totally coincides with yours

But patience with a project?

I’m terrible with it

I’ve learned to have more than one project going at a time, so I don’t have to wait…and watch….a project dry
Because I never wait

Refurbing a 100 yr old house taught me many a lesson
It was like a was on some sorta deadline, every project, especially the stairway of a thousand landings and switchbacks…multiple angles unheard of
Working ‘til 3AM, measuring once, cutting twice…or more
Trudging up and down those stairs, looking for…what was it?
Swilling coffee to stay awake, because Home Dopey will be open in only three hours

Now? I have all the time in the world…but not that much

Gotta finish the photo frames for that fire fighter kid down the path before they arrive in 30 minutes to meet my lady for their five mile hike

 

[treeguy64]

I like to keep projects going until I'm happy with what I've done. I've never cared about perfection, and I'm not that concerned about my constant improvement. At my age, I'm fine the way I am. If I acquire a new skill, as a result of a project I'm working on, it's pretty much a given that the skill will get rusty as I'm not working in the field I learned it for and thus, I'm not using it enough to think about improving or perfecting the same.

 

[Linda]

I agree, I am sure not into perfection.

 

[jujube]

Here's my prayer: "Lord, please grant me patience....and can you do that right now?"

 

[Ronni]

Here's my prayer: "Lord, please grant me patience....and can you do that right now?"

:lol:

I like to keep projects going until I'm happy with what I've done. I've never cared about perfection, and I'm not that concerned about my constant improvement. At my age, I'm fine the way I am. If I acquire a new skill, as a result of a project I'm working on, it's pretty much a given that the skill will get rusty as I'm not working in the field I learned it for and thus, I'm not using it enough to think about improving or perfecting the same.

What an interesting take on the quote, treeguy! See, it never even occurred to me that it was referring to anything specifically, like a certain skill or whatever. I took it as an overview of my general approach to life. Unless I am intentional about things, I'm typically hyper focused because I tend towards perfectionism, Makes it hard to just move through life when one obsesses about every damn thing!