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REAL POWER: MAXING OUT ON GOD'S LOVE |
ESCAPING FROM PERFECTION
Excellence is a road that takes you
to your dreams unless you stop at a roadblock called perfection. You
must embrace excellence and flee perfection. Excellence pays rich
dividends and is always within your grasp. Perfection is an
unreasonable master who is never satisfied. The wages of perfection
are eternal frustration. No matter what you do or how hard you work,
it’s never good enough.
PERFECTION PRETENDS TO BE YOUR FRIEND
Perfection is a master of disguises
and infiltrates every area of your life. It’s a silver-tongued
adversary that pretends to be your friend while it fills your life
with impossible dreams. If you buy what perfection is selling, you
miss out on the good things of life. Life can be excellent, but
perfection is impossible. The formula for a miserable life is to
expect perfection in yourself, your friends, your parents, your
children, your spouse, your business associates, your house, your car,
your boat, and your job. Perfection doesn’t exist in any of these
areas.
If you are hooked on perfection, you
need to have a talk with God. In all recorded history, the only
perfection I know about is God. Hopefully, after your chat with the
Creator of the universe, you will give up your need for perfection and
switch your focus to excellence and love.
Perfection isn’t necessary. It’s a
luxury you cannot afford. You don’t have to be perfect and live
without making a mistake for three days in a row to be worthy of God’s
love. You can be poor as a church mouse and walk around in rags, and
God will love you just the same. God loves and accepts everyone the
way they are. No exceptions. If it’s good enough for God, it should
be good enough for you.
BUILD YOUR LIFE ON A FOUNDATION OF
LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE
You must build your life on a
foundation of love and acceptance rather than on perfection. God
loves you and accepts you the way you are, but He loves you too much
to let you stay that way. The same is true in your human
relationships. You must love and accept people the way they are, and
do whatever you can to help them walk the path of excellence.
Expecting perfection in yourself and
others is a dead end street. The house at the end of the street is
called frustration, and if you move in, you will be miserable for the
rest of your life.
PERFECTION SELLS A PERFECT LIFE AND
DELIVERS A MISERABLE ONE
Perfection is a clever salesman that
tries to sell you a perfect life rather than an excellent one. The
sales talk sounds compelling, and you soon buy in to what perfection
is selling. Why settle for good when you can go for the best? Why
not go all the way and go for perfection?
Young people search for the perfect
mate. Perfection gives them a long shopping list of all the qualities
that must be present. Perfection never bothers to mention that the
perfect spouse doesn’t exist. Perfection tells you to just keep
looking. He or she is out there somewhere. Some people never get
married because they will not make a commitment until they find the
perfect person.
After you get married, perfection
rears its ugly head and starts telling you all of the things wrong
with your mate. The list of shortcomings is small at first, but it
gets longer each day. Perfection never tires in its relentless effort
to destroy your happiness. If you listen to the negative litany, it’s
only a matter of time before perfection completes its dastardly plan
and ruins your marriage.
Perfection sells a perfect life and
delivers a miserable one. When perfection comes in the front door,
the good things of life head for the emergency exit.
PERFECTION STEALS DREAMS
Perfection destroys many excellent
dreams. When I first started reading about sailing, I encountered
articles that discussed the characteristics of the perfect yacht.
These articles were written as if the perfect yacht really did exist.
Maybe they were written by someone living in a parallel universe,
different from our own, in which perfection was possible. In all of
the years I have been sailing, I never saw the perfect yacht. None of
them even came close. All of them were compromises. Here on planet
earth where I live, there are no perfect yachts. Maybe the authors
were writing about perfect yachts in the Big Yacht Club in the Sky.
I have met many people who wanted to
cruise around the world or the Caribbean on a perfect yacht. After
years of searching, these sailors finally realize the perfect yacht
doesn’t exist, and so they make a compromise. They buy an excellent
one or maybe just a good one. Then perfection pays a visit and tells
them they can convert their excellent yacht into a perfect one. It
will only take a few years and a few thousand dollars to make it
happen. So, go ahead. Do it. It will be worth the effort. You will
be glad you did.
They spend years trying to convert
their good yacht into a perfect one. The years thunder by and they
grow old, entangled in perfection’s web. When they finally realize
that perfection is impossible, they are too old and too poor to sail
on the ocean of their dreams.
CONDITIONS HAVE NEVER BEEN PERFECT
AND NEVER WILL BE PERFECT
Perfection tells many lies. One of
the most frequent is that you should wait until conditions are perfect
before you sail. You should make better preparations. Then when the
perfect opportunity comes along, you can snap it up. It sounds good,
but it’s a lie.
Perfect opportunities don’t exist.
They are a figment of perfection’s imagination. Opportunities always
come in work clothes, and they are far from perfect. Opportunity is
another name for a problem that needs to be solved. If you want to
have big opportunities, you need to find some big problems and fix
them. A perfect opportunity would be an oxymoron called a “perfect
problem”.
Conditions have never been perfect
and never will be. You need to step up to the plate of life and start
swinging at the pitches coming your way. There is no need to wait for
the perfect pitch; just keep swinging until you hit a home run.
DON’T LET PERFECTION TAKE OVER YOUR
PERSONALITY
If perfection takes over your
personality, you become a perfectionist. People who are
perfectionists have fallen into a trap from which escape is nearly
impossible. Escape is difficult because they don’t understand they
have a problem. They think you are the one with the problem. Most
perfectionists are proud that they relentlessly pursue perfection,
even if it is in trivial things.
They don’t understand that their
obsession with perfection is a waste of time. Obsessive and
compulsive behavior dominates their waking hours as they continually
rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. They are one-hundred
percent committed to putting each chair in its perfect location. Once
they get those deck chairs in the correct position, their trip on the
Titanic will be perfect.
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