Many moons ago, I wrote this article for Lifehack about perfect being the enemy of completion. While it revolved around a mantra of Ready, Fire, Aim, I’d like to come back to it for a moment and simplify it further to something I heard recently:

Better, not perfect.

Moving in the direction of better, even just a little, is a significant improvement over overthinking perfection and doing nothing.

For instance, I swept the floors.
Are they spotless? No.
Are they better? Yes.

I subconsciously took the same approach with my own writing, always striving to do a little better each time, but never expecting perfection from myself. Looking back at my work over the years, I can be proud as it was the best I could do at the time. However, each time I sit down, it’s just a bit better.

We can easily extrapolate to the problems of our world.

Can we do better?

Yes? Then let’s do it.

It won’t be perfect, but at least it’ll be better.