The Blessings of Good Enough.

We often see "Not good enough"

I don’t profess to know everything, but much of what I do know I’ve learned the hard way- trial and error. Mistakes. I then to do the “3 steps ahead, one step back” approach- I’m a work in progress. As we all are.

So… I do yoga.

I didn’t always do yoga. I did it in the past. Then life took over, so much so that I had to stop.  Then life started kicking the ever-loving crap out of me and I stopped and spent over a month cleaning my body. Part of that clean is yoga. The focus, exercise, meditation and sweat.

And it’s better. I’m healthier. Not perfect but better.

And sometimes you have to be grateful for that.

My enlightment happened while trying to do a balance pose. I’m not so good with the balance poses, but there I was… really trying… frustrated… I got almost to there… almost..ahhh dammit!

The teacher noticing our strain and struggle paused and then simply said “Sometimes you just have to accept where you are…it might not be where you want to be, but it’s good enough.”

A-ha. So halfway I stopped. It was good enough. I felt great.

We spend so much time focusing of fixing the wrongs in our life, stressing over the missed opportunities, the fine lines of time that creep across our body, the problems with no immediate fixes. Stress, anxiety.

I forget to stop and count the blessings of being good enough.

I bet you do too.

There’s the 80/20 rule in business. If 100% is perfect, usually getting to 80% relatively easy, it’s the last 20% that will potentially kill your product, your business or you. “The Devil is in the Details” and sometimes you have it ask yourself “Does it really make it that much better?”

Most of the time it’s “No.”

Somtimes good enough is, well… good enough.

Some companies, 37 Signals, in their terrific book, REWORK, talk how they actually force themselves to take away features on any of their new products. That’s like aggressively “Good Enough.”

I have to practice this, again I’m a work in progress. I mean, did I really need to stay up until wee hours of the morning hot-glue gunning pom-pons onto favor boxes my twin’s “Mini-wedding-but-it’s-a-3rd-birthday-so-who-made-me-Martha-Stewart?”  No. Now as their 7th birthday approaches will I do it again? No.

Wonderful marriage. Healthy, happy kids. Nice dog. My health. It’s not perfect but it is good enough and I am blessed for it.

See… I’m learning.

Soon I’m going to be embarking on 90 Day “Ass of Death Pilates Challenge” with the Fabulous Lisa Johnson and her Modern Pilates Boston. For 90 days I will be pilate-ing my tush off (or I hope to- that’s the goal because the badonkadonk I got going is Gansta Rapper size.) Of course I’ll set goals for myself- I’ve done Pilates (about 10+ years ago) and in fact, I did achieve the “ass of death.”

I was also in my twenties.

Though I’ll be writing about the whole 90 day experience, complete with the stats and pictures, I’ll have to keep it to my expectations in check. Be grateful for the experience. The improvements that will surely come,  perhaps new-found strength and flexibility. An inch or two off. A size smaller. I don’t know.

I have to remember that I am blessed if I get to good enough.

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