Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy of Good
This is a helpful thought right now as I balance about ten million different things: my field placement (internship), my job (Research Assistant), classes (four of them), homework (papers AND readings), Crafts with a Cause (volunteer stuff I'm doing at Ascension with my sister), Alliance for Anti-Racist Social Work Practice (at school...somehow I'm the SGA student leader), and planning my wedding. And trying to see my fiance, friends, and family. Wow, when I write it all down...no wonder my brain feels hazy and too-full.
I was making a flier for the Alliance's first meeting, and stressing because I didn't have the agenda of our meeting to put on there. I don't KNOW the agenda of our meeting, I thought frantically. I don't even know where to start! Are we having a discussion? A film screening? Who should I ask? Who is a stakeholder in this meting? Who to email? When to meet?
Then I thought, as though someone had gently tapped me on the shoulder and was reminding me: Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
The flier needs to get done. Right now, I simply need to focus on getting busy students to show up. I just want people to come - as for the other side, what we'll do, I have almost a month to sort out with the various entities engaged with this organization what we will discuss (most of whom I have meetings scheduled with over the next 1.5 weeks).
Time to just get the flier done. It doesn't need to perfect. Getting it done is good.
Same with grad school. I'm not finishing the readings, always. Same with Crafts for a Cause - it's been a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants kind of operation. Same with wedding planning - it's October and we still don't have a venue sorted. That spending time with friends and family? Not going great - I haven't seen my grandma in over three weeks.
It's overwhelming. It's stressful. It's too much. I'm not doing a perfect job of any of it.
I needed a little God-nudge to help me through my feelings of overwhelm. So that's my breath-in, breath-out for the week: Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
I was making a flier for the Alliance's first meeting, and stressing because I didn't have the agenda of our meeting to put on there. I don't KNOW the agenda of our meeting, I thought frantically. I don't even know where to start! Are we having a discussion? A film screening? Who should I ask? Who is a stakeholder in this meting? Who to email? When to meet?
Then I thought, as though someone had gently tapped me on the shoulder and was reminding me: Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
The flier needs to get done. Right now, I simply need to focus on getting busy students to show up. I just want people to come - as for the other side, what we'll do, I have almost a month to sort out with the various entities engaged with this organization what we will discuss (most of whom I have meetings scheduled with over the next 1.5 weeks).
Time to just get the flier done. It doesn't need to perfect. Getting it done is good.
Same with grad school. I'm not finishing the readings, always. Same with Crafts for a Cause - it's been a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants kind of operation. Same with wedding planning - it's October and we still don't have a venue sorted. That spending time with friends and family? Not going great - I haven't seen my grandma in over three weeks.
It's overwhelming. It's stressful. It's too much. I'm not doing a perfect job of any of it.
I needed a little God-nudge to help me through my feelings of overwhelm. So that's my breath-in, breath-out for the week: Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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