Flylady says “progress not perfection” and I love that idea. I’m living it too: I’m chipping away at my clutter in short bursts of time (sometimes just 5 minutes at a time). No, it won’t all get done in one session, but I am seeing progress. Much better than doing nothing, paralyzed by perfectionism and “all or nothing” thinking.

What a gorgeous picture and a brilliant post to match!

I am very much a perfectionist, so learning persistence rather than perfection is an ongoing journey for me.

I also find it helpful to have a direction for my persistence. Persistence in too many things just leaves me drained and wanting to give up everything.

Thank you for provoking my thoughts.

Same with much of life. Not all of it, but much of it.

And that’s heartening, because there’s always people who can do things better than we can. There’s a nice story about a famous writer, I forget who, who told a room full of students that for each one of them, there was 100 writers within 10 miles who were better writers than they were….but it was these students who would be successful, because *they* would actually sit down and write, and keep writing, not like those other guys out there.

You just have to remember to jump in, both feet.