The Practice of Good Enough

Learning to let something be “good enough” is a practice of trust. At a certain point in your process, you have to let go and trust that a piece of writing, a parenting situation, whatever you’re working on, is good enough.

As a recovering perfectionist with ADHD who still struggles with procrastination, this is an important practice for me. To trust that it’s good enough, and now it’s time to move the frick on!

It’s so easy to “hoard” your words, your writing, to do it in isolation, in a silo just waiting to have the stamina to finally finish and someday share your masterpiece with the world. That’s how I’ve always thought. But now I’m realizing that in order to even create a masterpiece, I have to allow myself to fail, to allow myself to create absolute trash. To trust that what I publish, release out there, is simply good enough.

I have to trust that this is part of the process.

Trust, I realize also, is the antidote to anxiety. When you trust that it’ll be okay, that things will work out, this allows your nervous system to signal safety and to relax. Which lets you safely move on, to expand your creativity and imagination. To have higher frequency and energy levels to attract the right ideas, opportunities, and people into your life.

It’s not easy when you’ve been operating from fear of “not enough” for much of your life. But it’s time to bust these limiting beliefs and let yourself fail.

All you have to do is start.