Perfection as Procrastination
Preparing for a goal is one of the best things to do. It is like preparing for a battle. If you are not prepared, you are more likely to lose the battle or fail in your goal. But waiting for everything to be perfect before you take onto it is another story. Let’s be realistic, perfection is far and is rarely achieved. A friend of mine has been planning of a business since more than a year ago. But until now it hasn’t still materialized because she’s waiting for the perfect time.
We even almost forgot about it until I came across of a site that reminded me of her business plan. I then asked her about it and told her that the perfect time would be now. So the plan has been alive once again. But this time, she’s more active. She is now preparing all the materials and the resources, unlike before that everything was just a plan.
Waiting for perfection is a form of procrastination. It is like a painter who never finished his painting for trying to pursue perfection. Surely we’ve all heard the cliche, “Nobody is perfect?” What we need to remember is that perfection is not a prerequisite for success. If you want to know when you’re ready, why not start achieving your goal? Once you started it everything will go with the flow and you might just realized that you started at the perfect time.