It depends on what we’re trying to do.
Is it worthwhile?
Does it feed our souls?
Do we believe it’s what we were made to do, even if we feel like we don’t do it well?
If the answer to any of those is yes, then we never stop trying because trying is the way we get better.
Writing is like that for me. So is pastoring. And parenting, and husbanding, and so many other things that are worth the time and effort to try, fail, learn, and then try again.
It’s the reason I love words like experiment and test. They imply that we don’t know all that there is to know, or all that we may even need to know, but we do know enough to start.
And by start, I mean try.
Too many great ideas stay ideas because the people who had the ideas are still thinking about how to perfect them before they perform them.
Can I let you in on a secret that probably isn’t really a secret after all?
Ideas don’t get perfected before they get performed. Performing the idea is how you perfect the idea.
Ideas don’t get perfected before they get performed. Performing the idea is how you perfect the idea. Click To TweetDoes this mean that we give no thought to how things can be — or should be — done? Of course not. This isn’t permission to roll out ideas, products, or services half-cocked, but it is permission to tweak, change, draft, edit, and improve all of those things after they start.
How does that old Winston Churchill saying go? “Perfection is the enemy of progress.”
Today, decide to make progress, even if that progress is failing. At least you’ll be failing forward.
