What is good enough?

Today I met my counselor. One key takeaway is to ask what is good enough in doing things? What is the objective? What is good enough to meet that objective?

This is because of my perfectionism has been too much that it paralyzes me. I either distract it by doing something else or excuse myself by stoning - as if sticking to the task but stoning is better than switching other tasks.

The vicious cycle continues when I apply perfectionism in my progress - either I progress and change immediately or I don’t want to do. So what is good enough step for now?

There are two, one is how do I love my ideal self more? And how can my ideal self deal with its unhelpful part?

My tendency is to hate back my ideal self when he is angry to me. I want to eliminate that unhelpful part of ideal self. But it is like two sides of coin, it comes together. So one way is to acknowledge his anger, giving him space for angry without taking things personally. It is like yes you can be angry and it is understandable but we still need to get this done. Remember that ideal self helps to maintain the quality. So let him handle the unhelpful part of forcing myself to get the best quality and find the sweet spot of good enough to progress.

Just like this writing, it is not perfect. But it is good enough to capture today’s session.