Don't Try to Be Perfect: Just Get Better!

What is your ultimate goal? If you had unlimited resources, time, and self-control, where would your self-improvement efforts take you?

If you said perfection, then you have big trouble. The jury is in on that one. Being a perfectionist is not a great thing to be. In fact, there's a boatload its it's really, REALLY, not a great thing to be at all.

But, let's face it, when you're working on self-improvement, you want to get something just right. You want to hit and maintain a certain weight, you want to stick to your healthy eating plan, you never want to say a cuss word again.

All extremely laudable goals. All, of course, virtually unachievable. It's because of the nature of perfection. Perfection means that *nothing is wrong* But that means everything has to be right. In our hurly-burly world, where chaos and confusion runs rampant, how likely is that?

If you said, "Never gonna happen," you're right.

So, what to do?

Try thinking about self-improvement as continuous improvement that gets closer to perfection, but never achieves it. There will always be opportunities to improve yourself. Instead of dreading that possibility, welcome it. Embrace it.

After all, what life be like without challenges?

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