Perfection Plummets

My industrious parents raised me with the philosophy that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. This charming nugget of wisdom has served me well for the first 28 years of life. Until now...

I find myself a quasi-single parent trying to juggle a full time job, three lively children, and household management. As I have grappled to fit the tasks that used to fill my whole day into about 3 hours, I was reminded of a story my inspiring friend Barbara once told me. She was working out at the gym one day and on her way out, one of the trainers commented to her cryptically that, "well, I guess some is better than none." Barbara could have been offended by this anomalous and offhanded remark that seemed to fly forth from this person's mouth for no apparent reason. (I would have been.) But as she thought about it, she began to see some truth to this weightlifter/itinerant philosopher's comment.

I am also begining to see the truth of this in my life and have downsized my good ol' credo a bit to: "Some is better than none." This works for just about everything in my over-filled life. Eating some vegetables is better than eating none. Some weeding is better than none. Doing some laundry is better than doing none. Some sleep is better than none, etc. Perhaps even the one earing I wore to work yesterday was better than no earings at all.

If you think about it, I haven't really given up my old philosophy, I have just decided that if something is worth doing, doing the best I can at it, is good enough. Mediocre words to live by!