Won't rest until you are the best?
Try being good and get some sleep.

Pour your whole being into perfecting a skill
or splash it around on all different things.

Jack of all trades, master of none.
That's me - flexible and versitile.

I've tried not quitting until it's perfect.
Uncompleted projects shout "done is good!"

Passionately pursuing perfection
I caught uptight neuroses.

As I shedded the yoke of perfection,
I let fear of failure fall to the floor.

I tell you, I'll never be perfect,
but most of the time I get it right.

01/27/2006

Author's Note: I always do my best in everything I do. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't. I think this poem would make all the authors of those manager self help "In Search of Excellence" type books hurl their books at me and call me a loser. But I am happy. If I have misspelled anything. Let me know. I am proud to say this was POTD in July

Posted on 01/27/2006
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