28 February, 2007

"It's Perfect!"

Sometimes we may be tempted to wait to do something: to improve the item, take stock more fully, or study the problem and find a better solution. If we put off doing it until it's a better time, we risk not doing it at all. It becomes a trap we fail to recognize, and we end up not accomplishing anything. I imagine that many artists, leaders, scientists, and presenters have been dissatisfied with what they put out. I could even picture Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being unhappy about the content of one of his speeches, as amazing as they are to this day. It is easy for someone to find fault and nitpick their own work, to think they can do better. It isn't important, because if it were any more refined it might seem unnatural, or it may fly over another persons' comprehension. It is better to do the best one can at the time and go with what one has. The only reason this is here for you to read is that I finally gave up editing and just posted it! It is better to make a move and trust in, and hope for, the best than stand rooted and not accomplish anything. Don't wait until it's perfect, because it never gets there.