Don’t let "Perfect" be the enemy of "Good"

Perfection is a bitch, isn’t it?  Is it? - I haven’t achieved it so I wouldn’t know.  But striving for it, sure is.  I believe one should want and expect their output to be of top notch quality, in whichever field you’re producing in.  But when your input in terms of work, stress and opportunity cost, far exceeds the quality of your output, something is off.  The balance just ain’t right.  It’s at this point that one should recalibrate.  How and when did things go so far off the rails?  If you’re asking yourself that then you were to bogged down by the process.  Either by the love or disdain for it.  The process draws you in either way.  Be conscious of that and remind yourself to zoom out and see where you’re at relative to the next goal post.  How do you go about recalibrating once you’ve determined the what and the why?  Very good question.  I guess one approach could be outlining your current process.  What do you do and when and for how long?  How do you do it?  What tools do you use?  Then once your SOP (standard operating procedure) if you will, is mapped out, start trimming the fat.  Analyze each of those individually mapped out component and determine if it’s necessary to your process or not.  Is it just a bad habit you’ve developed?  Can you get from A to Z without negatively impacting the quality of the output?  If so cut it out.  If not, consider if there are ways to make efficiency gains within the scope of that facet of your process.  And as always, wash, rinse and repeat often.  That’s as perfect as you’re going to get.  

~12.2.2022 @ 8:14am