Apart from welding, design, build-outs, or furniture--a note on something that I've been talking about lately: the art of beginning. As anyone with even a mild case of ambition knows, many of our dreams often end before they begin because the mountain seems far too substantial to start the climb. A lack of capital, skills, space, time, support, tools, whatever. But today I encourage you to think of the idea of proto-perfection as a way to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Proto-perfection is a magical workaround, a way to absolve yourself of any misguided expectations of perfection--whether those are outward or inward--because what you're doing now comes before any of that. Now is not imperfect; it's not final; it's not perfect; it's just a precursor of what's to come. It's proto-perfect. It's beginning. And it may never be what you want it to be, but we can never know how all the things we do in our lives feed the other, current or subsequent, things in our lives. So this season, I wish you as gentle or as sturdy a push to start the thing you've felt unready to start, and join me in the Pursuit of Proto-Perfect.
And, one more thing: you do not have to be the best at something to enjoy doing it. Go easy, and find the joy!
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