Process Over Perfection

For many years I have followed the mantra of: progress over perfection.

I still feel it is a useful message and way better than obsessing over perfection by itself.

But I found a word that is even better than progress. Think of it as an upgraded word. The other model does still work, but this one has even more truth to it. The word is: Process.

Process over Perfection

This free spirit, all-over-the-place, multi-passionate person that is me, has found a way to fall in love with routines.

Structure allows a container for creativity to flow. Without a container, my creativity leaks into the ethers. And that isn’t ideal.

If we get into the process, maintain a process (i.e. a system of habit), continue the process, then progress will happen over time.

Process allows for mistakes, process allows for improvements and corrections, process allows for trials, process allows for progress, process allows for perfection even.

I like how the word process is non-judgmental, whereas progress still puts on pressure like perfection.

Progress holds an expectation to get better all the time. But what if mess-ups happen along the way? Process allows for the mess-ups while on the journey of progress.

It’s about getting in the habit of doing the things on a regular and consistent basis that takes us on a journey of refining our gifts.

Finding your regular process is the actual goal that matters. One that gets you excited to be in the process, and makes you want to practice it.

There is a compounding return when we commit to a process. Even finding your process is a process.

I had to trial and error many systems until I landed upon the ones that stuck. That’s how I am able to maintain something more ordered as a free spirit. I freely found a container that I enjoy.

My secret…notion.so. That’s a discussion for another day.

Delight comes from the journey itself, more so than the destination. Make the journey satisfying and gratifying, and you will have a sustainable way of life until you land at the goal you deeply desire.

And just throw the word “perfection” out the door. It’s not relevant to this discussion.

What is perfection anyways? Who is the one who has this high moral ground to even classify your work as perfection vs non-perfection? Why not call every step of the journey to be perfect? Just live your life, explore, discover, learn, and play.

I really love the quote by Nelson Mandela: “I never lose. I either win or I learn.”

Shift your frequency. Find your (Qi) flow. Rise & thrive.

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