Condensed Version (Good enough)
Living gratefully today, I connected with the expansive universe by noticing the morning stars. I also give thanks for the recovery connections I have and how they reinvigorate my own recovery work.
As I continue to transform and age, growing up in ways for the first time, I grapple with what overdoing, overwork, and overthinking have all done to me. Some of what I avoided in my busyness I am now facing, and the view is changing. Awe more defined. Vulnerability more genuine.
It is hard work. And it is the best work. "Never good enough" is evolving into "good enough" in many ways that are making a significant difference.
The more personal stuff isn't meant for this public blog, but I can talk about "good enough" here in a way that others who have grappled with "never good enough" and perfectionism and workaholism can all relate to.
How about just doing a task well enough to be done with it and move on? Instead of finding one more thing to add, do, clean. Then one more. And another. Spinning exhaustion and inevitable resentment at the clock for moving too fast. Calm and presence? Long gone. Sound familiar to anyone else?
I can turn any task— washing the windows, cleaning the refrigerator, or finding the right visual for a presentation— into more than it needs to be. I am seeking the condensed versions of these tasks and sensing how it feels different.
"Good enough" is a good mantra for today. It's not slacking, it's sanity.
As I continue to transform and age, growing up in ways for the first time, I grapple with what overdoing, overwork, and overthinking have all done to me. Some of what I avoided in my busyness I am now facing, and the view is changing. Awe more defined. Vulnerability more genuine.
It is hard work. And it is the best work. "Never good enough" is evolving into "good enough" in many ways that are making a significant difference.
The more personal stuff isn't meant for this public blog, but I can talk about "good enough" here in a way that others who have grappled with "never good enough" and perfectionism and workaholism can all relate to.
How about just doing a task well enough to be done with it and move on? Instead of finding one more thing to add, do, clean. Then one more. And another. Spinning exhaustion and inevitable resentment at the clock for moving too fast. Calm and presence? Long gone. Sound familiar to anyone else?
I can turn any task— washing the windows, cleaning the refrigerator, or finding the right visual for a presentation— into more than it needs to be. I am seeking the condensed versions of these tasks and sensing how it feels different.
"Good enough" is a good mantra for today. It's not slacking, it's sanity.
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