Perfection

Most organized people follow a few simple rules.

1. They have a place for everything. Every item they have has a consistent, assigned home.

2. They put things back. Whenever an item has been removed from its assigned home, it is used for whatever reason and then immediately returned to its home .

3. Organized people make lists and notes, and keep these in one consistent place such as a planner, notebook or calendar. They don't try to remember things in their heads. They let the pen and paper (or the computer) work for them.

4. They don't allow papers to pile up. Papers to file are filed each day, not left to grow into mountains.

5. They don't procrastinate. When something has to be done, organized people schedule time to do it and then they keep that scheduled appointment.

6. They set goals and assign deadlines. They know if they want to get things done, they need to know exactly what they want the end result to be and by what date.
It is true, we love to see people with self imposed discipline.
But too much discipline and efforts to bring the same regulation in others will make one very unpopular at home.
Unless treaded properly, at anytime perfection will turn into obsession.
It’s like buying a home that needs a lot of work. At first, you see the major stuff that needs to be fixed. You’ll even convince yourself that the house
will be perfect if you can just fix those few major things. But, after you fix the obvious, you’ll begin to uncover a million other things that
aren’t necessarily broken, but that could be better.
If you’re not careful, your innocent aim for perfection will turn into obsession.It is venom capable of destruction.
While you are in the remodelling process, you’ll read more books, watch more home improvement shows, and make more mental notes on your friends and neighbours’ homes too – comparing your
house to the BEST features from all the BEST houses. Before you know it, you’ve spent 10 years of your life on fixations.
You may not enjoy time with your children.
This is just an example.
Perfection is good. More sensible is to accept certain imperfections as part of experience.
I know a lady who used to keep her house spic and span.She got an award in 1985 for the best keep up also
A casual visit to their house revealed many other things.Her two boys aged 7 and 5
returned hungry from school.She persuaded the children to keep the uniforms in the intended place,arrange the shoes in the rack. She was more worried about the slight tilt in the position of chairs around the
dining table.After 45 mts when she started preparing dosas, the children , being tired started sleeping on the floor.
After a few years I heard that the lady had to be treated for her 'perfection' .For the past 25 years the brilliant perfectionist is living in a home.She could not even attend the marriage of her children.She has achieved nothing by being a perfectionist.
This should not be considered a pretext under which imperfectionists want to escape.
While disciplinary habits are ever welcome,going too much behind the same would create a hell .
A moderation should be the aim, rather than total perfection,if we need a really Happy Home.
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