It was not a perfect trip…but it was an excellent one.
After 92 days, 13 states and 7,200 miles I am home. What awesome sights. What a beautiful country we live in.
Thinking of excellence got me to thinking about how that is generally not good enough for some people.
Nothing short of perfection will do.
Are you like that? Do you tend to be a perfectionist?
Perfection is something to shoot for…but somewhere along the line most of us learn that things rarely come off as planned.
Untimely things happen and performance suffers as a result.
When things go wrong do you tend to get upset because your performance was less than perfect?
It has been my experience that when we become upset when things get off course, it affects our future course of action.
Being successful requires making an effective compromise with perfection.
I believe that working toward excellence will work. As the great football coach, Vince Lombardi, once said: “Shoot for perfection. You won’t get it, but you will get excellence. That’ll be good enough.”
I’m not saying we should relish the thought of being less than perfect.
But we shouldn’t shy away from doing something important for fear we won’t be perfect.
In fact, one of the biggest mistakes we can make is to not attempt something because we fear that we will be less than perfect.
Look at every challenge you face with an expectation that you will do your very best to be perfect.
Then when you do fall short, where will it leave you? At the doorstep of excellence, right?
Perfection is not needed to be successful. Strive for it…but if you end up on excellence, that will do the job, don’t you think?
