Let Good Enough be Good Enough — Why it Pays to Let Go of Perfection

For the longest time, I had the most difficult time finishing what I started. Not because I wasn’t productive, but because I could never view anything as being ‘good enough.

Every article I wanted to write.

Every painting I wanted to finish.

Every YouTube video I wanted to make.

Every little thing I did had to be done to some lofty standard that was nigh on impossible to achieve.

I could spend hours toiling away on some project, deeply engrossed in the creative process to the point that nothing else in the universe mattered.

Yet no matter how long I worked on something, no matter how utterly focussed I was upon the task at hand, I could never let it out into the world because it was never good enough.

It could always be better.

I could always do more.

I could always tweak this.

Fine tune that.

Improve the other.

Breaking point