Quote #34.

This week:

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. –Steve Brown

And so, life is a continual process of revising and revisiting in attempts to do it better. ;)

For me, this quote has two parts. First, I have to remember that first step…figuring out whether or not something is worth doing. If it’s not, I need to let it go. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I feel like I’m getting better at this. I’m trying to slow down and ask myself the real purpose behind things and whether a task truly contributes to the life I want. This is particularly challenging for me in our homeschooling, as I’m a collector and love to hoard supplies and curriculums and plans of attack. I’m working, though, at simplifying and demanding that each item on my to do list serves a worthy purpose. (I do this around our home, too…constantly going through and purging things that we don’t need, lol.)

The second part of the quote is making sure that my perfectionist tendencies don’t prevent me from trying new things once I’ve determined that they’re worth pursuing in the first place. Personally, in both running/fitness and homeschooling of late, I’m finding that this works best for me if I purposefully schedule imperfection into my plan. If I remember up front to allow for doing something poorly, then the doing of it doesn’t feel quite so disheartening and I can focus on knowing that it’s just a step along the way. Easier said than done, of course... ;)