Bill Parcells, Super Bowl, Hall of Fame Coach has a Mantra
that he would strongly encourage his football teams to
adopt:
“D O N ‘ T E V E R L E T G O O D E N O U G H B E G O O D E N O U G H”
A G R E E
OR
D I S A G R E E ?
New Year’s Day is still a whopping
1 0 8 Days Away,
so don’t get any ideas about getting crazy and making
r e s o l u t i o n s
but how about something that’ll last longer than the obligatory
couple of weeks past
January 1 ?
Why not a Mantra?
L E T G O O D B E G O O D E N O U G H
Seriously. . .
There’s something about that simply Manta that spells:
H A P P I N E S S
Voltaire once said,
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of of the good.”
I’ve never been accused of being a perfectionist
but at times I like being close. . .
You?
In his book,
THE PARADOX OF CHOICE
Barry Schwartz says there are two kinds of people:
S A T I S F I C E R S
and
M A X I M I Z E R S
SATISFICERS are people who make a decision or take action once their criteria are met.
MAXIMIZERS want to make the optimal decision–even if they see a bike or a backpack that meets their requirements, they can’t make a decision until they’ve examined every option and done ultra-uber-research and data collecting.
Now the studies suggest that SATISFICERS tend to be
h a p p i e r
than MAXIMIZERS;
Maximizers spend a lot more time and energy to reach a decision, and they’re often anxious about whether they did, in fact, make the b e s t c h o i c e
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm of the Day kind of stuff, huh?
So what about a new Mantra?
Last week I was talking to a friend who told me that having adopted this mantra:
LET GOOD BE GOOD ENOUGH
has literally changed her life. . .
Jennifer Kunst, Ph.D seems to agree.
In her book,
WISDOM FROM THE COUCH: KNOWING AND GROWING YOURSELF FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Dr. Kunst suggests:
“. . .by accepting ourselves as enough, we must accept our limitations and the limitations of life itself. But in doing so, we also gain access to life’s real possibilities. By forsaking the false path of seeking something bigger and better, we choose a real path that may be smaller but less to a different kind of better. By choosing to accept ourselves as enough, we choose a better way of being who we already are. . . .”
It’s some 1 0 8 days away from another
New Year,
why waste another resolution
why waste another moment
when this very instant
when this very n o w
you can
L E T G O O D B E G O O D E N O U G H
you
can
personify
h a p p i n e s s
H A P P Y N E W life Y E A R
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