It’s got to be perfect, that’s what Fairground Attraction said, and also Ed Sheeran, and also probably many other artists, it’s a popular topic!
But what is perfect to you?
There is no such thing as a perfect that everyone subscribes to. Perfect is only decided by you. Your perfect. And your perfect has been decided, influenced, created based on beliefs, values, characteristics, priorities, influences.
We have a strange relationship with perfect. So often our Perfect holds us back, keeps us in place, keeps us away from ever being perfect!
Maybe Perfect is just a convenient excuse to hide, to not do things, to live in fear instead of curiosity. Maybe it is a real problem. Your Perfect means you don’t get things done, you are never satisfied, you can never just be.
It’s worth exploring your relationship with perfect.
I know in my past work I have wanted to create something so perfect it has baffled and bemused stakeholders. They just wanted a simple, straight forward solution that might be about 50% there in my view (96% there in their view) and my over thinking left them cold.
I have watched others do less than (my) perfect and get praise, even promoted. I have watched others deliver outstanding, well thought through work (by my judgement), and yet they get over looked by those thinking it was surely just ‘their job’.
My perfect has to be close to your perfect to be Perfect.
We wrestle with being perfect for so much of our lives, but whose Perfect are we trying to achieve.
Why do we hold ourselves in our Perfect space? Does Perfect serve us in the way we want it to? Or is it our repellent? Our hiding place? Our struggle? Our reason for not being, ehm, perfect?
eleanor
What is your Perfect?
Difficult one this, really got me thinking though (& an earworm). I might be back tomorrow with something to say
It’s taken me a while to think about this one. For me, it’s tiny things that can be perfect - scent in the garden, a moment of physical movement, the first mouthful of icy beer in a hot day - and I’m not sure I celebrate them enough.