Do I have to make everything "perfect" or if I can't then it's best to not do it at all? What if something goes wrong and it becomes clear that the original goal can't be achieved? Is abandoning the whole project the answer then?
That's pretty much what I have been doing for a long time now. And it's not someone else's idea of "perfect" that I am trying to adhere to. It's my own perception of how something should be done. And if for some reason I believe I can't do it like that, I lose interest. I prefer to do nothing if I can't do it right. And I have started to think that this isn't really working.
It's good to have standards. And it's good to have goals. Even hard ones. It's fine to set the bar high. But that's not all there is.
What I'm thinking currently, is that I should still make plans and schedules to achieve certain objectives. And even if it doesn't seem like I'm going to succeed sometimes, instead of giving it up altogether, I will continue to try and do my best in that direction. If there's not enough time, instead of scrapping the project, I'll do as much as I can, the best that I can do, and extend the deadline if that's possible. If I don't have the ability or the resources to make something "awesome", I'll still try and make the best that I can with what I have now. Perfection is a good motivation but not necessarily a realistic goal.
After all, it's okay giving up things you don't want to do because that will free up time that you can use for more pleasant activities. But it's a shame giving up things you love because you feel you should be at a certain level of expertise for them, and then being left with nothing to do. I have certainly been there.
Therefore, my slogan for now is definitely "Don't give up. Do your best!"
That's pretty much what I have been doing for a long time now. And it's not someone else's idea of "perfect" that I am trying to adhere to. It's my own perception of how something should be done. And if for some reason I believe I can't do it like that, I lose interest. I prefer to do nothing if I can't do it right. And I have started to think that this isn't really working.
It's good to have standards. And it's good to have goals. Even hard ones. It's fine to set the bar high. But that's not all there is.
What I'm thinking currently, is that I should still make plans and schedules to achieve certain objectives. And even if it doesn't seem like I'm going to succeed sometimes, instead of giving it up altogether, I will continue to try and do my best in that direction. If there's not enough time, instead of scrapping the project, I'll do as much as I can, the best that I can do, and extend the deadline if that's possible. If I don't have the ability or the resources to make something "awesome", I'll still try and make the best that I can with what I have now. Perfection is a good motivation but not necessarily a realistic goal.
After all, it's okay giving up things you don't want to do because that will free up time that you can use for more pleasant activities. But it's a shame giving up things you love because you feel you should be at a certain level of expertise for them, and then being left with nothing to do. I have certainly been there.
Therefore, my slogan for now is definitely "Don't give up. Do your best!"
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