By I.J. Hudson:
I looked into the mirror and what I saw scared me to death – well, almost.
It was one of those Bed, Bath & Beyond moments. My wife had talked me into picking up a few things at the store. While she’s piling up stuff in a cart, I’m distracted by one of those two-sided “make-up mirrors.” On one side, the lighted, regular view, but flip it over, and -- ALL, and yes, I mean ALL of your imperfections are magnified. Whoaa!! Trust me, it’s not a pretty sight if you’re over eight.
That got me to thinking. (I apologize in advance.) If we look too closely at ourselves, at what we’re trying to do, if we go “too granular” on things, we may ascribe too much value to the small imperfections seen only on our close-up instead of the really good stuff we see in the normal view.
Everyone can find something wrong if they look under the magnifying glass. If we look closely enough, we can always improve. IMHO, looking at the “close-up” reveals faults that the rest of the world just isn’t going to see, and perfect anything is not an option for many of us - whether it’s our face, an idea, a business model or anything else.
The old quote is loosely, “don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.”
The lesson: move forward with the good stuff; the perfect rarely comes.
And, in my case, (looking into the magnification mirror) the perfect is about 100 light years around the corner.
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