Aim for PROGRESS not Perfection

By: Kmar Henry

            CEO │ BIZcare Consultation & Accounting Firm

Perfection is probably one of the most highlighted aspects that deteriorates and strays many persons who have dreams of making themselves better in life. As explained by many successful persons worldwide; the true aim is to start from wherever you are, and then grow into that person that you need to in order to attain the life that you dream. This growing in sense is rather just learning along the way from every single mistake that was made. A factor that many of us still can’t seem to absorb as we seem to all have this complex view of success from an angle that we have to make some HUGE changes. An aspect and concept that I will try to breakdown in its simplest form from exposing the truth behind why PROGRESS is far more important than PERFECTION.

Why is Perfection Poisonous?

When moving forward it is important to stimulate our minds from a view of simplicity, meaning; what we don’t want to

do is view CHANGE from its most difficult angle as most people don’t want to change not because they don’t want the many fruits that it may bring, but because it requires a whole stream of changes towards attitudes and behaviours that are and were embedded in our ways because of the environment that we were brought up in. Hence, it is only the pain, hurt and guilt that comes with altering these changes that we are afraid of, and somehow always fall victim towards the discomfort that is also intertwined with it as well. Thus why we are always distracted by looking at the outcome from an angle or view of perfection without even taking into consideration all the necessary steps needed in order to reach these very goals that we so need. These steps are what we refer to as ‘the progress’. A process that can be explained as having enough awareness in order to see our shortcomings, bad habits and behaviours from a non-emotional stance in order to have some view of where these niggling aspects that don’t serve much purpose came from. It is at this point we are able to de-attach from a more intellectual stand point, all of these habits that serve as blockages and guards against our view of growth, as we tend to think that we have to make this arsenal and uncanny shift that only hurts nothing but our ego. Which is why so many of us are stuck within the realm of thinking that we have to do things perfectly in order to succeed, and not understanding the process of practicality that’s actually needed in order to make PROGRESS of which is far more essential.

Awareness is the gateway towards staying PRESENT

If we should look at how easily people will associate the success of persons as sheer LUCK and not WILL, we can tend to use this aspect to create a pictorial image of what goes on in the minds of most individuals when the view of success comes into retrospect. What most people don’t realise is the importance of staying engaged and present on every step no matter it’s high degree or ambiguity, as these are always of high value in the aspect of learning. What we don’t want is to be in a such a high sense of ego that we find pleasure in disregarding all the valuable lessons that are behind all the mistakes that we make in our upbringings. Whether in school, business, sports, friendships or in our jobs, these lessons are usually thought to be little but are some of the very reasons and things that distinguish the poor, middle class and rich. Which is why the aspect of them being made so frequently should be taken into consideration by us all at a higher magnitude as they are only teaching us life from its simplest of angles. Hence why so many us just can’t seem to grab onto this as we are not aware at all of their values, as we usually just sweep these mistakes under the rugs created by our egos. Thus, we are unable to stay present as we are always thinking of the future without making the necessary changes in order to stay connected with the presence of life in it’s entirely. No wonder why we are always so anxious to get onto the next point without even enjoying the journey. A factor that only awareness can cure as we spend too little time which questioning our behaviours in order to understand why we do the things we do.

ENJOY taking the Little STEPS

A lot of new and added characters can be built from this as it forces us to engage entirely with life from a far less and complex view. Let’s look at it from this view; let’s imagine a person who doesn’t loves to read but wants to become a lawyer right? From first perspective someone hearing this would say straight away that this person has no chance, however we cannot blame them in this scenario as reading is of high correlation towards being a lawyer. But what about other essential characteristics like being able to use emotional intelligence from a less prejudice and non-juristic angle? Isn’t it important also to assess this person from this aspect as well? Hmmm….another reason where we can see where Perfection creates this blockage from seeing things on a more practical level as we would already be trapped into viewing things holistically without seeing that all these other things or characters like reading can be practiced and learned over a period of time. A clear view why taking these little steps are so much important as we can grow from point or level 1 to 2 once we are willing to work endlessly on development. Bear in mind though that these steps will make you feel extremely uncomfortable as our mind will continually question your sanity as you move forward.

MISTAKES are Precious just like GOLD

Probably every successful person will tell you how important making mistakes were within their development, as these

things just gave them the opportunity to see whatever they were or are doing on a whole different scale. Mistakes and failures provide us with the gateway to restructure, re-plan and add even more value to our respective ideas and talents on a whole different level that we most times tend to not even envision. So why is it that so many of was crumble within that moment when we experience our first failure or began to meddle our minds within this strap to think that we cannot triumph over whatever hurdle that we are going through. Bear in mind that one of these keen factors lies within the way how we were brought up, as many of us were scold for our mistakes instead of being told why we needed to actually do better. Hence, if we were literally conformed to seemingly accept that making mistakes are bad of sort, which raises the factor that our brain cells have accepted the eluded ideologies of such. Mark my word that when a factor of such becomes evident, just know that the level of discomfort that you will feel will have you thinking that whatever you’re doing is somewhat affecting your sanity. Thus, you will feel as if you need to resort back within your denounced level and mental scope of comfort. But just know that within a couple of months you will envision and see yourself and things extremely differently. Just research the greats and you’ll see how much jump shots that Michael Jordan had to miss daily before we seemingly thought that he perfected it, look at how much times Colonel Saunders seemingly failed to execute his secret recipe until it was accepted, or even looked at how many times job interviews Jack Ma failed at before he started his own online warehouse. They all had one aim in common and that was to use each mistake or failure as a guideline towards mastering their trade and even more importantly their aim was rather progress of which caused their drive to double each time they were rejected. 

The concept of life is always simple, however due to our upbringing it has enable us to detour from this view because of things that were taught to us over a period of time. Many of us have crippled our creativity and desire to put our ideas forward because of survival. Thus, we will see the power of repetition in our career fields but will fail to apply these very same practices to our dreams because we are afraid to make a little sacrifice. Then, we will see others who took those very same risks and think they are perfect or are lucky, under-minding and regarding little the sleepless nights, hard work and lessons that these people took from working continuously on one thing. Which is why they can enjoy the fruits of their labour which came from making PROGRESS.

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