Done is better than perfect

The pile of pictures had been moved from the box, to a drawer, to a storage bin, to another drawer.  I even had the scrapbook ready for them to go into.  At one point a few months back, I actually organized the pictures by date and “theme” to be ready to put them in the book, but it all ended up in the drawer…. Been there?  Have you ever not completed a project because you wanted it to be perfect? I realized something HUGE yesterday – “done is better than perfect”.  There is so much power to that statement and it would serve us all well to pay attention to it much more often. Guess what?  As of yesterday, my pictures are no longer floating around in a drawer or a box, they are in a scrapbook!  Are the Christmas pictures before the Halloween pictures?  Yes!  Are there some pages that have 4 different years on them?  Yes!  But you know what?  It is OKAY and the pictures are no longer sitting in a drawer/box/etc.  And it feels GREAT. What is it in your life that you are just not doing because you don’t have the time to make it “perfect”? Your pictures, your house, your self-care, your workout, your_______?  You fill in the blank. I will challenge us all to stop with the perfectionism and do our best and complete the many tasks that are waiting on us.  Just get them done.  Stop worrying about perfection, and think about completion.  I PROMISE you it will make you feel better, let you move on in life, and give you an extreme sense of accomplishment. Perfectionism in anything is only a tool of distraction to the greater things in life we have to accomplish.  Put the pictures in the book, put the book on the shelf and feel good!   ]]>