{"id":1015,"date":"2019-10-31T04:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T09:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2019-10-28T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T02:48:22","slug":"in-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/in-process\/","title":{"rendered":"In Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Practice makes progress, not perfection.\u00a0<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Voltaire (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/scholar\/voltaire\" target=\"_blank\">Voltaire<\/a> said it so well, \u201cThe perfect is the enemy of the good.\u201d\u00a0<br><br>We are all in process. Not fully baked. Not quite done. Some of us are almost, but not yet there. We are all learners in different stages of our own growth process. Only those who expect themselves to have already arrived will have little room for those that have yet to arrive. Themselves included.\u00a0<br><br>If we stop expecting <a href=\"http:\/\/samuelrainey.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/perfectionism-is-the-enemy-of-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"perfection (opens in a new tab)\">perfection<\/a> we might be so much happier with the results we get in life. Most importantly, we\u2019ll be excited about ourselves, and others. Perhaps it\u2019s time to set down the idol of the perfect, and accept what is good.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice makes progress, not perfection.\u00a0 Voltaire said it so well, \u201cThe perfect is the enemy of the good.\u201d\u00a0 We are all in process. Not fully baked. Not quite done. Some of us are almost, but not yet there. We are all learners in different stages of our own growth process. 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