Today's Thought - January

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January 16

When you aim for perfection you discover it’s a moving target.

~George Fisher

In our desire for control, we seek the ultimate control of perfection. We try to relieve our anxieties and self-doubts by achieving it, but in fact we perpetuate our unease by seeking what cannot be attained. Some of us say, “I’m not a perfectionist because I am far from perfect,” only proving that we are always measuring ourselves with that yardstick.

The way to resolve this dilemma is to get a different yardstick. Instead of measuring how far we are from perfect, we could measure whether we are learning anything new. Or we can ask ourselves if we have continued to get back on the path when we veer off course. Knowing we will make mistakes, we can ask ourselves if we take responsibility for them. Knowing some things will go wrong, no matter how well we plan, we can include in our plans a vision to accept mistakes as part of the package.

Today, I will try to learn from whatever happens, and when something goes wrong, I will accept it and deal with it.

Today's reading is from the book Stepping Stones, More Daily Meditations for Men