Everything that has made humanity great was setting high standards and having high visions for ourselves. There is nothing wrong with expecting a lot of ourselves.
But understand that it’s not going to be perfect or ever have any sense of perfection along the way.
If I know whatever I’m going to put out there is not exactly perfectly, cool. If I know whatever I put out there is going to be part of my learning journey. I’m going to study it. I’m going to be attentive to it. I know it’s never going to be my best yet. Perfect doesn’t happen ever!
We can always be perfecting things, but we’ll never reach perfection.
Knowing that now, if you realize you’ll never reach perfection, then you should never feel disappointment. Makes sense right?
There’s nothing in me that says it has to be perfect. It says I’m going to do my best. I’m going to put it out there. I’m going to iterate. I’m going to innovate. I’m going to get better and better and better and better and better, and along that learning journey things will be good. And I’ll accept that, you know what, as I do them and do my best that the universe will reward me as it should.
You have to allow the universe to be what it is. You have to allow yourself to feel satisfaction. That’s called being present. If I can be satisfied in accepting of this moment I can be present in it.
I’m going to decide today to stop pouring so much energy into this belief that these things are disappointing and instead, I’m going to focus on what have I learned here.
I’m going to be excited about the learning. I’m never disappointed because I’m too excited about the mastery being gained.
Having a learning mindset prevents you from being disappointed.
* Source: Brendon Burchard – How to Deal with Disappointment