Good enough

What are you making it for? Who are you making it for?

Regardless of what the answers to those questions are, it likely doesn’t have to be perfect. And good enough is often quite far from perfect.

But it’s still useful. The quality standards for what you’re making change depending on how the questions above are answered. Sometimes the quality will need to be higher. Sometimes it won’t matter as much.

Trying to avoid perfectionism in everything you do can save a lot of time and energy and frustration, especially when that extra effort, time, and frustration isn’t being valued.

Sometimes I try to ask myself this question:

Will this work?

Then it’s good enough.

ISJ