That is, to have standards that represent "getting there" that are so high that we always fall short.
More likely, the effect of these overly high standards will be to keep us from ever beginning because the point of arrival looks too far away, and we cannot imagine how to find and take all of the intermediate steps.
Today be realistic. Know that there is no such thing as perfect, so why should we worry about getting there?
There is the here and now, and when we get there, it will be that day's here and now.
Recognize that perfection is only an illusion, learn to take daily pleasure and fulfillment from the process.
Live in today.
We have trained them (men) to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain - not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~ C. S. Lewis
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