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Good enough

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Philip Dodson blog

That’s ‘good enough’, is something I have been guilty of saying on more than one occasion, well truthfully, on hundreds, if not more occasions.

It’s strange, that with no restrictions, except for the ones that we put on ourselves, that we would accept just ‘good enough’.

If we are going to bother summing up enough determination to overcome inertia and start something, why would we settle for just plain old ‘good enough’?

It could be that we try to do too much in any given time period, the pressure of wanting to live up to this almost macho bullshit of ‘working hard’ and ‘I’m so busy’. Therefore, because we have set unrealistic goals of what we can achieve, we often rush things or accept ‘good enough’.

Maybe we are fearful of sharing our truly best creations, in case it is too different, and we fear others might not like it, so our powerful limbic ‘chimp’ takes over, rattles the cage and we accept ‘good enough’.

Possibly, it is all part of the play it ‘safe’ culture that the homogenised industrialised world has brainwashed us with, to ensure we just comply and do our jobs, without causing any noise or upsetting the status quo. So as a tick box exercise we have been programmed to produce just ‘good enough’.

I’m for trying doing less, but giving it my best shot to produce something that is remarkable. It’s hard, because you have to unlearn.

However, I know that by overcoming fears, being courageous and vulnerable, only then, will we find out what we are truly capable of. What a waste of a lifetime never to try and find out.

Test it

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Philip Dodson blog

When over-thinking kicks in, the longer you let that process run, the less likely you are to do something.

Our limbic brain will talk us out of most things, it’s especially skilled at dangling instant gratification trinkets in front of us. Boy does it know which ones work with us, after all it’s had our lifetime of experience of what weapons to use to thwart us.

The thing is, if you have an idea, unless you test that on an audience, it will always remain an idea.

As time passes the idea will turn into a regret, especially when you see someone who had the courage to test an idea similar to yours. Often in our eyes, we see it as stealing our idea and we get quite indignant.

Then we say ‘well they won’t do it as well as I would’ or we might say ‘well maybe the idea wasn’t for me anyway’.

The fear of not testing an idea prohibits us ever knowing the outcome and think of all those great things we could have created.

Testing doesn’t have to be big, all that is required is to have the courage to try. But that is a small sacrifice versus the pain of not knowing, the regret and the disappointment of seeing others doing it.

So what ideas do you have today, that you could overcome the fear of trying, and go out and test on the world? You never know the outcome and that is the excitement of life, we get to choose which ideas we test out loud or don’t.

Just test something.