It Ain't Perfect

Beautiful day! I hate to be at work, it’s so nice out. I’d like to go play in the park, or something like that.
Oh well, anyway, here I am,--hope you’re doing well.
“We seek progress, not perfection.” This is the mantra of many twelve-step programs. “We seek progress, not perfection.”
Many human beings only will proceed if they know things will be perfect. We want everything to be “just right”, so we want perfection, right? If not, then we don’t proceed, or we stop, or we just kind of mess around, or procrastinate. Many of us are perfectionists.
This is actually a fear-based behavior. Perfectionism is a fear-based behavior. You’re afraid to proceed because you’re afraid of failure.
So what happens is we just get stuck, we get paralyzed in doing nothing, we never move forward because we’re afraid of the failure aspect.
I’m trying to get the ball rolling on my website right now—um, it’s gonna be teacherbill.com. My blog is teacherbill.blogspot.com, but I’m migrating everything to teacherbill.com. The reason for that is I want everybody to be able to see videos, or download MP3 audios.
Right now, blogspot and youtube is (are) not accessible everywhere, so that’s why I’m setting up teacherbill.com.
What’s the point behind perfectionism, you, me, and my website? Well, the point being my website’s not going to be perfect, it’s not going to look real slick. When you go to it, it’s going to look rather amateuristic—amateuristic.
Well, I can’t wait till I get everything perfect—I don’t know enough—this is a learning process. It’s a learning curve. I’m trying to improve and get better.
But it’s important for me to make this available to everybody. So, that’s the idea—my website’s not going to be perfect. And it’s a good lesson for all of us—don’t worry about things being perfect! Progress—seek progress, not perfection.
Why don’t you employ that in your own life? If you wait for everything to be perfect, just right, you’re going to miss a lot of opportunities, and you’ll waste a lot of time.
Alright, go check out my website, teacherbill.com. (www.teacherbill.com )

Key Words

Ain’t-slang-DON’T USE “AIN’T”!!! IT’S LOW CLASS!!! INSTEAD, USE “ISN’T”. (My English is so bad!)

Mantra-n-a commonly repeated word or phrase.

Procrastinate-v-to waste time, delay in getting something done.

Perfectionist-n-a person who needs all details to be right, in place, and won’t move forward until all things are perfect.

Get the ball rolling-idiom-to begin something, get action started on a project or activity.

Migrating-v-moving a group of items, people or animals in a slow, steady process, from one point to another.

Amateuristic-adj-THIS IS NOT A WORD!! I LIKE TO CREATE WORDS!! THE CORRECT WORD IS “Amateurish”, meaning not professional, showing a lack of skill and knowledge. “Bill’s English is amateurish.”