Opposing Perfection

Shane Crafton asked:


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Overview

Today’s wellness industry has no shortage of products and programs. Companies fight like ravenous dogs for the attention and assets of potential customers. That is just one reason why people who are looking to lose weight must be exceedingly diligent to do their homework before making their purchases. Perfect Pushup™ is a piece of fitness equipment which is primarily marketed as a muscle-building product. Whether Perfect Pushup™ is a worthwhile option for promoting weight loss in general will be discussed in the following review.

Program at a Glance

Perfect Pushup™ is just as its name suggests. It is an apparatus which facilitates effective pushup routines.

Program in Focus

Perfect Pushup™ is essentially two handles which sit on the floor. Apparently, they can be used in various positions and manners to promote muscle-building in different parts of the back, arms, and core. While toning or bulking muscles may be something that some dieters are looking to do, this does not constitute substantive and widespread fat loss. As such, Perfect Pushup™ should probably not be considered a generalized “fitness” apparatus. It should also be noted that this product is marketed primarily toward men.

Positives

•    Facilitates some exercise

Negatives

•    Focused on muscle increase

•    Exercise is only one component of weight loss

•    Free trial apparently not offered

•    Marketed primarily toward men

Final Thoughts

Perfect Pushup™ appears to be a product which is largely focused on muscle increase and which does little to facilitate generalized calorie-burning fitness for users. That is why many dieters will opt for utilizing exercise programs and products that are focused less on promoting muscle growth and more on keeping people active. Beyond fitness, each dieter must be concerned with nutrition. Both healthy eating and a large intake of water are non-negotiable factors in lasting weight loss. Lastly, dieters may also decide to add an effective dietary supplement to their approach. Always seek out a product which can provide both fat burning and appetite suppressing benefits. Such a supplement should do well to help maximize the results of your exercise and healthy eating habits.

Francis Githinji asked:


Do you believe that you can have a perfect wedding? You can achieve whatever you believe and, having a perfect wedding can certainly be accomplished. Perfection and success are synonymous and, it is possible for you to plan a wedding that will not disappoint you. There are many aspects to a wedding and it is vital for you to put everything into perspective. Planning can prove to be a huge challenge only when you do not have the right information. Therefore, it will all begin with empowerment. You have to know not just what you are doing; but how to do it well. Planners play a major role to make sure that the event turns out perfectly. If you really want to make things superb, it is good to look into a good planner. They will come with a wealth of experience and all you have to do is tell them what you have in mind. If you do not have money for this, you can always plan the wedding with help from friends and family.

A perfect wedding will be just like you have it in mind. Therefore, it will be good to have a clear picture of what you wish to have. If you have a particular venue or destination in mind, share this with people who are planning and look for workable ways to make it possible. If you really want to have a winter wedding, you can have the perfect wedding you wish to have. If you are looking for a summer wedding, you can also work with it well. The kind of theme you choose will enhance the wedding to make it perfect. For example, if you are a cowboy person, you can have all elements that announce this fact and to you, it will be perfect. Perhaps it is vital to mention that you are looking for a wedding that will please you the most. Guests will appreciate your ideas and when you personalize them, they will see the kind of person you are and what you love. Therefore, pleasing the guests in attendance is important but, pleasing yourself as the bride or groom is more important.

Unlike what many think, a perfect wedding does not have to be an expensive wedding. However, money goes a long way in making a wedding perfect. All you need to have is focus on what you want to achieve. For wedding supplies, you can look for cheap places to shop at. Look for discounts and achieve accessories at a much lower price. Creativity will play a major role to make the wedding perfect. Do things differently so that they can appear to be more elegant. For example, invent your very own decor and style. You can also look in magazines to see how you can improve it. Wedding resources will open your eyes to new and different possibilities. When you have done all you can to make the event perfect, it is time to let everything flow. You will be happy to know that all worked out perfectly; just as you planned it.

Bnei Baruch asked:


“Nothing’s perfect” – is something we all hear and say pretty often. We grow up knowing that no matter what we do and where we go, we will always see defects in everything and everyone around us. But if things are really built this way, then why do we have this longing for perfection?

When I worked for a large international corporation, I once had to write a so-called “360 degree” report on my boss – a description of his attitude at the workplace, intended for the higher executives of our company. When I got to writing about his negative features, I went and asked him what I could actually write. Smashing the phone on the wall or destroying computers in front of the employees—wasn’t really something I wanted to share with our headquarters.

After some thinking, he said: “Write that I am a perfectionist. It’s not as bad as my other problems, but at the same time, HQ people consider it a defect in a leader.”

I remember being both surprised and confused at the same time. Surprised at how graciously one can conceal one’s disturbing attitude and habits, and confused at a thought that occurred to me many times before: “Why is perfection so unattainable? Moreover, why do we long for it so restlessly? And usually, the less perfect we are, the stronger we long for perfection.”

The fact is that we rarely pay attention to that voice inside us that encourages us to accomplish something that looks absolutely perfect. More or less, that little voice is telling us: “There is perfection out there; you just have to find it. Just look a little harder and you will.”

However, that voice will always be followed by another one that says: “Even if there is perfection out there, it’s a waste of time to try and find it in our severe, defected world, full of envy, hate, blood and tears. It probably isn’t till we die that we’ll be able to experience real perfection…”

Yet at the same time, this “horrible world” around us is also breathtakingly beautiful. It inspires us, heals us, entertains us and cares for us. And if you think about it, the only thing in it that’s out of order – is ourselves. But why?

Nobody gives us answers to these questions. We are born with them and die with them, never managing to disclose any part of the truth. We get used to thinking that “we do not deserve to know,” or that “such small and flawed creatures as us simply weren’t meant to reveal what’s hidden to us.” But our children, don’t they have the same questions? And their children? And all the people that ever lived? And if so, how can it be possible that it was all made without any purpose?

Reaching Perfection – Miracle or Vital Need?

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that these “rhetorical” questions are perfectly normal and all people have them within. They emerge from what the Kabbalists call “the point in the heart”—the initial part of our soul that causes this much-said-about longing for perfection. Kabbalists explain that this longing is nothing less than our inborn desire to reconnect to our spiritual root, the Creator.

And the most interesting part of it all is that we have to achieve the state of perfection and eternity, and we have to do it while living in this world. In other words, there is nothing to be discovered after our death. And moreover, after we die, there is neither hell, nor heaven. In fact, Kabbalah puts it even simpler: We already are in hell, living our lives the way we do now. There is nothing worse than this, because we don’t feel our connection with the Creator even by a hair’s breadth. Now isn’t that a refreshing viewpoint?

So Kabbalah says that there is room for perfection in our life—when we work towards perfection by connecting to the Creator. Once we learn how to do that, our perception of the world will also change, because we will reveal the Creator’s perfect plan and purpose.

Elle Brayson asked:


I wonder how many women already have the perfect man right there with them, they just don’t know it.  He could be hiding under the guise of being a  “friend”? You know, that special guy you confide in  every time  Mr. Wonderful breaks your heart,(again) and reduces you to a bucket of tears.  The one who has always been there when you need them.  Women often delude themselves about what the perfect man should be and we forget the truly important thing: how that perfect man should make us feel. If Mr. Perfect makes you feel bad, is he really “the one”?

Growing up means realizing that what is on the outside should matter far less than what is on the inside. The hard learned lesson here girls; the perfect man could be an illusion. Looking for your perfect man  based on looks looks alone is not going to get you anything more than a good looking creep.

There could be a few out there that are not only handsome, but charming, funny and sweet too. But to find that kind of perfect, you, yourself have to know what it is that you want out of life . You should have clearly defined goals, and  you have to know yourself and love yourself before  you can be the best you can be for the perfect man.  If you know that you are an animal lover, you better not find the perfect man is a hunter or is terrified of your beloved bulldog “Beau”. Either the guy has to change or the dog has to go.   Everyone has one or two must haves and can’t stands, (some of us more) Be very aware of their importance and  decide what you will and will not give in on.. Should you find someone new  who appears like Mr. perfect…be sure to openly communicate the must haves and I wants very clearly….For some, a sense of humor is just as important as having air to breath. A seriously uptight, no nonsense kind of man would not be perfect…no matter how good looking he is.    The  fantasy of a perfect man is a pretty picture but you may miss something even better waiting for him to arrive

Your perfect man could already be right there waiting for you to notice he wants to be far more than just your “friend”.  After all he already knows exactly who you are and loves everything about you.

Titus Hoskins asked:


We have all heard the expression “The Perfect Storm” and it refers to the situation where all weather elements come together at the same time to produce a perfect storm. But is there an equivalent of the perfect storm in the marketing world? A situation where all elements come together to produce “The Perfect Sale?”

For the moment, we will conveniently ignore the current world economic meltdown and look only at positive situations where this event may occur. Perhaps, the closest thing we have to the Perfect Sale is the online product launch. But unlike the natural phenomenon, this event is carefully planned and orchestrated by a whole army of web savvy marketers who know exactly what has to be done to create this Perfect Sale.

For this “sale” doesn’t just happen, professional web marketers create their own system of events that lead up to this Perfect Sale, earning themselves enormous profits in the process. This is an orchestrated marketing effort that bring potential buyers onto their contact lists and into their marketing funnels; heading straight towards their Perfect Sale.

These online marketers use a whole array of marketing tactics to bring potential buyers to their sales page. One of the most effective methods is the JV or joint venture with other established marketers who have long lists of interested buyers, and for a percentage of the sales, the JV partner promotes your sales page or product. There are even JV brokers, Mike Merz and Kenneth McArthur come readily to mind, but there are many more JV brokers who can arrange or line up potential partners to help promote your product.

A certain date is set for the release of your product and all potential partners/affiliates promote to their lists and on their sites. A buying frenzy can be whipped up especially if the product is limited and only a certain number of sales will be accepted. Also a high quality free sampling or teaser is usually given away to build up massive contact lists of interested buyers, this freebie is used to pre-sell to these buyers. There may even be a countdown clock to further create excitement and urgency in the mind of the buyer.

On launch day, everything is synchronized. JV partners mail out to their massive contact lists, enticing all their subscribers with extra bonuses to buy the product now before it’s gone. The sales letter page goes live and the sales pour in… creating “The Perfect Sale.”

For the non-marketing reader, this may seem a bit far-fetched but in actual fact these product launches are occurring online every week - creating the “Perfect Sale” over and over again. And these launches have been around for many years, one of the most famous being John Reese’s “Traffic Secrets” which was released in the summer of 2004 and earned over 1 million in revenue in one day.

There are even some savvy marketers who have perfected the product launch system into an art form, mainly Jeff Walker (Product Launch Formula) and Frank Kern (Mass Control) just to mention a few of the top marketers out there teaching and applying this marketing technique.

Key Elements Of A Product Launch

However, just like the Perfect Storm, in order to create this Perfect Sale many factors have to fall into place and come together. Some of these main elements are:

1. A high quality product which is in demand and desired by the potential buyers. It must solve a problem or meet a need within its niche market. Bit obvious but without this demand the product won’t sell in any great numbers, no matter what tactics you use.

2. A perfectly written sales letter that converts. Your sales page must convert into actual sales of your product. Again, quite obvious but if your sales page does not convert, it’s game over.

3. A whole motivated group of JV partners with enormous lists and bonuses to offer to potential buyers. Many product launches now offer special prizes (anywhere from a luxury sports car to the latest tech gadget) for those partners who can bring in the most sales.

4. A whole array of orchestrated, pre-launch tactics building up interest in your product with free high quality giveaways to get your buyer’s attention and contact information. Even a newly created blog to keep everyone informed about your product launch is often used.

5. Most of the above tactics have to do with creating the potential buyer with the right mind-set for buying your product. Creating a limited number of products or setting a certain time-frame for selling, and offering special deals or bonuses will further create demand for your product.

Product Launch Day - The Perfect Sale

Product launch day is when all the above factors come into play creating the “Perfect Sale”. Done properly such a sale can whip up such a buying frenzy that would put any great white to shame; earning all involved a healthy profit. It is one marketing tactic that’s not likely to disappear any time soon, although the novelty of such an event is slowly wearing thin as countless marketers try to re-invent the wheel.

Regardless, as an online marketing tool, the product launch is still one of the most effective ways to quickly introduce your product, build your list and cement your reputation. Not to mention, you can also earn a hefty sum of money in a very short period of time; the “Perfect Sale” indeed.

Joseph Jagde asked:


Ironically, perfection might be a flawed concept for you and me. It might be the last thing standing between you and what you want.

The pursuit of perfection probably results in more cancellations than anything else. It’s a good excuse not to because if perfection isn’t there, then I’m excused for looking into it further or gathering any further evidence.

There is a lack of recognition as to what is perfect. I am seeking perfection but I couldn’t recognize it if its winds did come in my direction because I don’t have the perfect eye for seeing perfection and my creative vision has been cramped by the narrowness of my pursuits.

I might begin to realize that I am putting a premium on perfection, meaning I’m bargaining away other opportunities that don’t meet up with the word perfect. But I might consider whether this is where I want to put my premium and if it best serves my purposes and designs.

I am pondering what should be perfect for me but that might leave some important things relatively out of sight and out of mind because my theory of relativity means I am looking at opportunities relative to perfection’s mandates which by my own choice I am putting first on line.

I could also think of what would be big for me. If I could do this or that, it would be big for me, regardless of whether I could achieve actual perfection. This could be big for me an extend past the line of what I expected. It might not be perfection, but it certainly surpasses previously held expectations. Pondering what is going to be a relatively big deal for me if and when I get there is also a way of identification of what I actually want that doesn’t always mesh in total with perfection.

As to what I hope to identify and define as being perfect is it ever going to be there or is it never going to be there? I want to be a perfect center in the NBA, but since I’m only 6’5 feet tall I’m never going to jump the tap against the Shaq who’s height advantage has already decided that outcome for the most part.

Perfection and its standards might be rising to high against the investigative process. I might be trying to raise my sights by investigating something and at the same time perfection is the leading theme of the investigation, but also I want to look at what lacks perfection but might be useful nonetheless. I want two boats to appear on the seas horizon when I just really need the one and I can reach compromises with perfection to get that one boat moving. Compromise with some of your ideals of perfection if it will help you move.The investigative process does include the imagination that you do want to keep active. You want to have an active and in use imagination and warrants to be perfect seem to at times hide away the imaginary world and its processes that are part of what forms our launch point. Hence the hawks of perfection hindering or circling around what was otherwise a free and open and widely circling launching pad.

If I have a job or situation that I can in fact work perfectly, then that should be a red flag, a red flag saying that there is not enough creativity involved in this pursuit because I can achieve perfection but the creative process is muted a bit and not enough creativity is bubbling up. Too much perfection as defined in performances is an indicator that I’m not taking creative chances.

Perfection might take out the percentages for me. I am 50 percent interested in this. Perfection tells me I should be 100 percent interested or forget about it whereas I can take and work with lesser percentages especially in the face of possible real rewards. I can allow myself and frame for smaller percentages that 100 percent in my decision making and pursuits.

Perfection can result in an all or nothing mentality where we lose sight of both the gradations and elongations. Even if we get perfection for this moment, it’s not going to stretch out to infinity for us. In addition, a truthful look at any situation involves gradations and nuances that involve proper particularization of what we are seeing. The ease of perfection may be just another trap blinding us to the real. It is easy enough to count 1,2,3 perfectly, but realism is the first order of the day, not an escape into easily found perfection and thereby avoiding complexities involved in the typical mess and working through the nuances involved with that..

I am looking for perfection or nothing. I need to work with less than perfect because I need to not take the easy way out by saying where is the perfect road? It is too much easy streets to say I have to have perfection and then I walk away on that basis. I have to have it this way, the perfect way or I will not have it at all. I am at the beach waiting for that perfect wave and I will consider nothing else as far as a wave. By doing this, I am not escaping the chaos either, and I’m better off just going more fully into the chaos, letting those waters rumble as they may and then is the perfect wave does arise, so be it. Let the wanted perfection go, and bring on the chaos, and then I can still maybe get some tints of perfection even as I am dealing with greater or lesser degrees of actual chaos from which there is now way I can reduce away from if I want to proceed.

I’m not far behind. This is a very positive statement and in some cases, it might be the proper view. If my potential as an actor is to be not far behind Ben Affleck, then maybe I should be in the movies. But sometimes when I am just taking in the view of perfection, I might not see that I’m not far behind. That I am not far behind is not a daring statement but just a reality telling me that is this is so, than I can proceed with hope in sight.

The view of being not far behind is quite good and although not perfect, if I am not far behind Tiger Woods on the golf course, then I need to know the meaning and charting involved in that as well. I might be looking for my dream date, but if that doesn’t happen I might find another date that is not far behind. Instead of thinking why am I am not perfect, think about how good it is to be not far behind.

I might be thinking about perfection and I might miss the next best thing. If I can’t get the best things or perfect things, I have the option of the next best thing if I can accept this. If I can’t get exactly what I thought I wanted, what is the next best thing? Then I might not be perfect but I might be better at this or that. I might not be the President or the king but I might be better as schoolteacher, gymnast, runner, swimmer, and reader of books than many of my contemporaries. But maybe I just rate with my contemporaries, I bounce off this side of the wall, they bounce off that side of the wall, but I am operating within similar boundary markers. Everybody is in the chaos, and the range that can be found is only within some manner of chaos, chaos that is even 1 percent there does introduce that there is chaos.

Perfection can trip up the comparisons if I compare myself to perfection I might lose some sight and recognition as to what I still have, going for me that might not reach into the realm of perfection but might be an asset nonetheless that is still very usable. But, maybe you are in a comparable range to perfection is when someone says, ” How are you doing?” And you answer, “compared to what, perfection?” But the search for perfection is going to have the tendency of putting us on a comparison trip because what compares to perfection? And in consideration of new territory, everybody faces new territory that is completely not traveled at starting points and mandates from perfection right at start point zero, doesn’t exactly get one into working territory if I have such a long and arduous road ahead and I also need to know where perfection lies on this road right from the outset. I might want to test capacities. I might even have the capacity to become a positive person and coach myself in that fashion. But I don’t know what my capacities are until I let myself first find and then go through the finding out process so in this case I am not necessarily looking for perfection but just to find out what my capacities are in this or that and at least allow myself to test for and view into my capacities by visiting what is in part experiential. Because I don’t know my actual capacities, I search them out as a partial unknown and the deciphering process in that isn’t that I am looking for perfection, I am just looking for what are the capacities involved here and whether there indeed are capacities that can be breached.

No matter what I can accomplish, in the day, or in a given period, there is a lot that I am going to have to leave undone. Wanting perfection isn’t going to get everything done because it just isn’t possible. I am dealing with limitations as to what can be done at the outset and all the way through.

We might be raising the bar a little bit too high by trying to things perfectly and I can practice dealing with confidence and basically just look at what will raise my confidence rather than what will raise perfection because my personal confidence is more of an intrinsic factor and or need. What I am I trying to raise, it might be confidence, it might be awareness, it might be the ability to experience, but I need not always raise the banner of perfection and it’s standards.

My search for perfection might be like running after the sunset instead of just taking it in as a wondrous moment in time.

Whatever I can capture in the moment is probably not going to ring through the ages for me anyway so I can only hope to be present to the moment first and only then ask humbly what could echo through the ages for me on this.

What would and could form into a proper symphony for me. Not that we want to be passive, but the striving must have a course that we actually begin to walk into with some light at the end of some tunnel. Perfect or not can I go somewhere with this that is more contextual to who and where I am now? I have a right to feel, know and immerse into context and the situational realities, because that is where I am.

The key point is that if we are going to work with the idea of perfection at all, we need to see perfection as not being a stationary concept. Perfection itself might show different faces. The new faces of perfection will appear as things change and suddenly know I do have this in a degree of perfection or in a way that can be describable as perfect. We will still need to make continuing moves if we want to track with currents of perfection, sometimes these currents may clash, and we need to move realizing that we are tracking with more than one thing. To have any workability, perfection cannot be seen as a stationary concept. It might not have been there and suddenly it has arisen, like the rising sun of the early dawn.

While your looking for perfection, you might miss your connections which are critical to just getting into wanted scenes. Therefore, especially if you are feeling confused and maybe even dismayed, try and first figure your way through this in highlighting the connections you do want to meet rather then perfections you do want to achieve. You can reconsider and worry about that later but first get on the train you do want to catch.

A key concept with this is also that the coordinates of perfection will move or change within the currents of perfection. The standing stations of perfection will change and then stand somewhere else. As we patrol the waters of perfection, we need to look at around at the movements of the sea.

The face of perfection might be changing and perfection or no perfection change is the order of the day and try first to ger right with the changes..

What does perfection mean to people and how do they use the concept? Perfectionism for some can result in absolutism. For them for things to be perfect it absolutely has to be this way. The focus must be absolute and absolutely I must obtain this goal when it could be decidedly dropped or toned down to lighter expectations. Perfection for some is making plans and following those plans to the tee. The blueprint, the outline, the plans, should not be compromised if perfection can be found. The basic problem with this is that who is too say that the plan was right in the first place or that other plans once carried out may carry equal or real viability or have wanted results. Or even more outrageous is expecting that the variables that are to be faced could be fully foreseen or contemplated and controlled for at the outset. Even if I can foresee fully and I can contemplate fully, that doesn’t suddenly leave me fully able to do wanted things with this foresight and great contemplations. I may have an advantage I otherwise did not have, but only an advantage and advantages don’t always play to the thunder either. I need to adjust my outline, adjust my plans, adjust my ideas as I travel further down the coastline.

For some perfection involves what is known. I want that established equilibrium, I want the known perfection. But wanting this isn’t going to get me this. What I don’t know dwarfs anything I can possibly know. How much of the future can I know from this moment? But if I am seeking perfection and correlate that with having to know, it might cost me the chance to seek the unknown and yet see it as exciting, as an adventure and possible holding some good or positive surprises. How can you derive excitement from the unknown and first want that visible perfection? I don’t have to see that unknown that way, but I could try to think of the unknown as something that might be good, and maybe this way of approaching things would be advantageous at times. Then perfection might relate against the turnaround, against getting it back, getting on another track. Since I looked for perfection, I lost my way and I might as well give up. How about the turnaround? I already lost perfection, she sailed away, so I totally give up and I don’t make the turn for anything new. However, some turnaround was still possible. If I only looked on more time, but I turned my back to the coast one last time.

Then I am looking inward, or am I looking outward, where I am looking? Seeking perfection can result in an aggravated sense of self-focus and it can result it too much of an outward focus at times. I need to balance the outer and inner focus and neither neglect the outer or inner as I chart my course while blending both, but my definition of perfection has me off balance there. For example, I should be socializing more and with people more. But I am waiting for the perfect time so I can present a perfect front and image or when I most feel like it not realizing that feeling arise and surface as we go into things. I feel the waters as I go into the seas. In the meantime, I am too inward in my focus and I am losing the balance beam of perfection in that way. I wasn’t able to balance myself to the shifting sands along my coastline. Those dunes of perfection were too high for me. Or I did have perfections winds behind my sails and I just don’t or didn’t see it that way. My concepts and definitions of perfection were cloudy, yet perfection did arise from what I had, and I mistakenly did not know I had it, and I ended up looking for something I already had, a mistake made by many.

Then perfection seems to relate to limits. If I’m perfect, if I can find this perfection, then there shouldn’t be any limits there. Can I forget about my limitations then once I am finally perfect? I need to keep them in mind if I am to chart a course that is workable. But really the perfection I am looking for is found within real limits but despite these limits I do have the perfection. I can’t hurl a baseball across the ocean and that is my mistaken definition of perfection. However I can hit the mitt of the catcher every time from the pitchers mound and for that I have the perfect pitch. But some people start to feel the word perfection usurps real limitations when I am never going to find myself without limitations and it is better to know the game I’m in rather than thinking the game is different from false truths that I had arrived to in my thinking and in yet another way, I lose the truth of the perfection I actually did have.

And then limitations that might not be there are imposed by perfections demands. I think the perfect woman would also include being a super model. But then I could consider a woman who isn’t a supermodel, but not if I am looking for my idea of perfection. I am limiting myself to a woman with a given set of circumstances or characteristics. The perfect woman is 30 years old, so I limit myself to woman of this age and I don’t launch from any other platform of thinking.

This also ties up in not seeing what might be real abundance. I am looking for a perfect woman on the crowded beach. There is an abundance of women on the beach, but because of my idea of perfection, I don’t see this abundance or the range of abundance that is really there. Where are the boundary markers and who determines where they are? I am looking for a perfect idea when there is a flock of good ideas out there or an open range of good ideas out there. If things aren’t rolling out perfectly for you it doesn’t mean they aren’t rolling out for you and often quite abundantly and there are more ways to extend what I want if I don’t predefine off what is a more elusive concept of wanted perfection.

Then I think the perfection takes on all the risk. I can skydive perfectly, I could surf the giant waves perfectly, but is this perfection I am finding take away the real risks of what I am doing. The risk remains right within the perfection because even if I am the perfect surfer, the real risk of the titanic wave is not a mirage that perfect surfing masks over.

Or it could be just around the corner. An example could be the apple tree with an abundance of apples, but only one perfect apple. Even if you find that perfect apple, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t lot’s of other apples on that tree and the reach of what that tree has to offer is in reality greater than what my demand for perfection conceptualizes in the moment . The perfection is sought by some as some sort of monuments that is a citation to some things or to have in my sight. But in the end, neither perfection nor imperfection is going to be left standing as regards to you and me and perfection needs to more be seen as something that I can move with, move into, if it is going to reach in the plains of valid and usable and forward seeking.

Then some of us want to show perfection but we might end up with perfections mask. But then what happens if I want to take that mask off, and the truth of my imperfection is revealed. And then I might have made a mistake, I had the wrong interpretation of what perfection was, in fact I was perfect underneath the mask,, but I thought not, so I hid that perfect self with what I thought was a mask of perfection but it was actually a mask of imperfection. The perfection I thought I was presenting with the mask, hid the true gem. I was so worried about perfection, that I actually hid perfection by not keeping this to their original form.

Then I might be looking for perfection and I can’t even tell. For me it’s not even a searchable characteristic. I can’t seem to search the interior. I am on this date, is she perfect, I don’t know? I don’t even have the tools to test for perfection. I am not a weatherman and I don’t have the barometers and I am not a perfection man because I don’t have those barometers, I don’t even know how to test for perfection.

An especially important idea that relates to perfection is pace. I feel like I should pick up the pace. I can’t be sure that a faster pace will bring me to perfection. It might be true but in other cases, I might be better off slowing the pace. There might be instances where I am missing out because I am operating at a faster pace. Other times I might be missing out because I am operating at too slow a pace. I might be moving to a slower clock or I might need to move to a slower clock. The increased velocity is only going to take me so far, I not going to the Moon anytime soon no matter how much I pick up the pace. I might try to capture perfection at a faster pace, but it still might outrun me in elusive fashion. The symphony that will work for me might be found at another pace. With a faster pace, it might be that I am compressing expectations into a smaller time frame or period. I confine my efforts to this time frame and this pace, where the eventual results might be found within a longer time horizon or a different pace. I might find my way on the next series of events. This might not have been my series and maybe things will find their niche in the next series. I’ll find my way next time. If I had followed a fast pace to nowhere, I still want to pace myself for the next series, the next time, and have some left for that. What I can do wrong here is that I make judgments off frames. For example, I am working on a project, I judge it off a week time frame, where I could judge it better off a month time frame. I judge it off a how things are looking straight through the week or month and judge it off how consistent the results might be, where the results might be found in clusters and I need to frame for results off clusters rather than a smooth terrain view.

Or I might have driven myself right past my goals and what I want by following too fast a pace, and losing the eye of the observer. Alternatively, I get up drive for the sake of drive. I drive myself forward in something I don’t want or I am not interested in. I **** golf, but I practice all the time, why bother, then, save that drive for something you like. But I really do like golf, and I frame this to where it is a leisurely pursuit that I will get to after I have reached some other pinnacle. So if I don’t reach that pinnacle, I don’t golf. For example, I will not golf this year until I have earned 100 thousand dollars. This is the frame I’ve established, and if I don’t first make that money, I just don’t golf for the year. If I want to do this, I can do this but realize that the frame up I choose, was my choice and it is a changeable choice. I can say, I’ll go golfing after I make my first 5,000 for the year. I thereby change the frame and pace of my decisions. I can work with perfection on a one-time basis. I’ll give this dream one shot, and then I’ll go back. I’ll try for an adventurous job in a foreign land for one time, or I’ll try to write one novel or one page of a novel if that is to high a goal. Again it is the frame I choose, I can choose a frame of multiple attempts rather than just one. I can try every 6 months for a job in a foreign land rather than say trying just once.

What happens also is we lose the partial sometimes when we look for perfection, if something isn’t perfect doesn’t mean we need to assign a zero to it. It this is something I have that I can’t conceivably value at perfection, I don’t automatically assign no value to it either.

There is the idea of a qualified perfection. I say this qualifies as perfect is this or that happens or is present. But really what is going to qualify as perfection and that can chance at different periods of your life. Maybe going of and hitting the mountains after to many months in the office now for this period indeed does qualify as perfect in the quest for rejuvenation and in finding a lost part of yourself that can be activated again if you do go away.

As far as perfection, even if it is there, I might not be able to get to it. Perfection might have a wider scope than you can reach.

Say for example, the ocean is deemed as perfect. You go to the ocean. It is so vast how much of it can you reach anyway. You go in the water, you can’t see to the bottom or the to the far distance beyond the horizon. You take a cup and fill it with water from the ocean, how much of this ocean have you been able to capture?

In the movie the Beach, Leonardo DeCaprio and friends have a map showing the way to a hidden perfect beach. But issues impose as the movie progresses and ultimately he can’t have this perfect beach.

I could be perfect and see the perfection in front of me in any number of areas, but that doesn’t mean I can get to it. I look up at the perfect star, that doesn’t mean I can get there.

I go to the beach and in the distance, I see some perfect surfers’ waves. But between these waves and the shores are savage currents. I can’t get to the waves without crossing through these savage currents. I can’t get there without an extreme risk. I can go to another part of the beach where the waves are good, but not perfect but these waves are within the reachable realm. But I can get to them and ride them with a fair amount of safety. So what is better, the perfection I see but can’t get to, or the less perfect that I can actually get to?

You get the Sunday Times. You consider every article perfect. But how many articles can you get to without spending the complete day with the paper? To read every article is really out of reach even if you spent the whole day with the paper.

You go to the library. There are lots of books you want to read cover to cover, these books are close to perfect. But you can’t get to every book in the library of Congress, even as a speed-reader. The perfection is right there, but the scope of it is too wide for you to actually reach. The perfection might be in the far away future or the distant past and you can’t reach it because it not there right now. You can’t see the perfect movie in 2110 at this point. But even if it’s right in front of us now, we still might not be able to get to most of it. Say there is a stadium full of close to perfect people at this game. Can you talk with all of them at this time? The perfection is there, but you can’t position yourself for all of it.

Another difficulty with using the concept of perfection is it can disorder our priorities. We consider what we want to put up front. For example, I say I’ll only paint this picture if I can do it just about perfectly. Suddenly, painting is less of a priority, where it might have been the thing to do today if I hadn’t introduced the idea of perfection into the situation.

Should I order my priorities on what I could do more perfectly. For example, I don’t want to date anybody unless they are close to perfect as a date. I want the perfect date with the perfect history, or I expect the person to not have a history, when everyone has a history. Or if she doesn’t have the perfect history she should have a perfect history retroactive to 1999. Anyway, I want some retro perfection in the least. At the same time, I myself am less than perfect using the same retrospective analysis. But I hold off in search of the ideal. But what happens is the whole issue becomes a secondary consideration because I have made perfection or my idea of it primary, while it is possible this is indeed a good idea that is should still be out front, a lead issue, even with the accompanying imperfection which seems to be present and seems like it might remain present. But I have subtly reordered my priorities based on wanted perfection. I brought my desire for perfection onto my scale of what is important and weighed what was important based on perfection, less perfection, or the lesser to the all the way to the lack of perfection. I would have kept my interest and search for perfection as a separated sphere from my ordering of my priorities but this search for perfection issued right into how I ordered my priorities. I can’t accept the degrees of imperfection I might indeed find and have to deal with, and I use this as an excuse to bypass the whole idea.

Sometimes we feel bad that we miss perfection. Maybe we should also feel bad then if we miss something that is less then perfect, but still good.

The pursuit of perfection might involve a rush to judgment that just is not necessary. I can go into the situation without a need for rushing to judgment because why burden myself additionally if I really don’t want to, if I feel like taking my time and I don’t see perfection, why am I so in a rush to find it? There tends to be a gearing up if I don’t at first get what I want. I feel if I can only bring in more perfection that will bring me there. Surely, I will need to adjust pertinent variables, but the hold on the situation will not suddenly jump into perfections arena just because I have plugged in better to real and viable variables.

You say, I didn’t think this would have been perfect. Then you say, I thought it would be good, but I was looking for perfection. I would say, maybe you missed out on something good then. I have put some things under the strain of perfections demands as the presiding weight of perfection is keeping me from moving with agility and breeziness into the future.

You would want your doctor, or someone who worked on the brakes on your car before you went down a mountain road to be a perfectionist. Would you want the engineer that designed your car not to be a perfectionist?

Maybe we wouldn’t know perfection if it was staring us in the face.

Realistically, when we are talking about perfection we are talking about being close to perfect.

Perfection may have a hold on you or you might have things on hold for perfection.

Here is the perfectionist phone call. I call you up, ” Hi, how are you” I have to put you on hold. “What for” I ask. You say, “I’m waiting for perfection”. Okay, I’ll see you next century.

These people have things being held up for the perfection they seek. They might not even know it when they see it.

Because they are holding on to perfection, perfection has a hold on them. Just like a bank being held up and eventually robbed, they might be robbing themselves out of opportunities by having perfection hold them up not only in the moment but also down the roadways of what otherwise might have been possible or could have been traversed if perfection was left by the wayside.

Also, there has always been a link between the search for perfection and procrastination. Because perfection seems to count for more even it is isn’t fully quantifiable, I am generally waiting for bigger numbers or something bigger and sometimes that wait tends to be longer.

The perfections wait might ironically work against finding perfection. I’m waiting on perfection in this situation, which will work against the letting go process, which is necessary or desirable in some situations as I can never be totally freed from chaos in the search. While I am patiently waiting on this situation for perfection, there might be another situation I am bypassing which is much closer to perfection and much easier to deal with right from the beginning or get go and the initial startup possibilities are real and could possibly be traversed in reality. At least I can get a start elsewhere, while perfection wouldn’t even give me a place at it’s starting line because it is so hard to get a toehold then.

You can only give what you can give. For example, my friend is a hairstylist. I want to give her business and I want to let her cut my hair once or twice a week. However, once I have my hair cut, it takes a month or so to grow back, so the best I can give her as a customer needing a haircut is a once a month visit to help her business out that way.

We might join ourselves into some creative process and look for perfection at the same time. First, I might want to increase the creative level. The first focus as far as our designs should be on the creative process rather than the perfection. The creative process is what I seek to march into and to navigate towards. If we have our designs on perfection while also looking for creativity, we might end up getting frustrated and wind up inhibiting the creative process. Here then I just frame for creativity since that is my goal.First and foremost I want the creative juices flwing and perfection would be just an add on to this, or a caught by suprise byproduct of this. Perfection if it comes might be later on or as byproduct of some previously unknown mix, not right off the bat into the process.

I should be able to bring a given style to a particular situation that may or may not be side by side with perfection. People may have different speaking styles, writing styles, acting styles, and painting styles, all which can relate to the creative process. The whole creative area lends itself to different styles. After all, if everybody is going to be perfect, where is there room for style? I could look for the perfect me. A key idea is where, how and when do I need to be roomier in processes I’m involving myself in or what ranges can I attempt to go forward into. People have given themselves very narrow bands to both operate in and excel in and the question to that can by, why? And also, low bar results are still results, I don’t have to jump over the canopy of the ages in everything I do and everywhere I go in order to find myself with some wanted results.

Sandra Canfield asked:


In society today many couples are turning away from having merely just a simply and traditional wedding and instead they are placing their own twist on the ceremony. Many couples now want a theme for their wedding but they often don’t know where to start, well let me just say four words to you; perfect pair wedding theme.

One of the most popular wedding themes that couples are opting for at the moment is a perfect pair wedding theme. This theme is a cute play on words as the theme is based on pears and this theme is basically proclaiming you the perfect pair.

The theme known as the perfect pair wedding theme is traditional as it reflects what weddings are all about; they are a time of joy and love and the perfect pair theme represents the celebration of two lives coming together. It is a promise of faith, commitment and honor. This theme reflects the idea of two people who have found each other. The idea of the perfect pair wedding theme has also been around for a long time as in Victorian times the pear itself was a symbol of affection and the pear tree was a symbol of comfort. When using the image of the “perfect pair” it is a beautiful statement of love, two being a matched set and the emotional power of the wedding vows. This is a beautifully elegant theme for a sophisticated wedding. There is a lot of symbolism surrounding the idea of using a pear to represent the theme of a wedding and nothing seems more perfect to reflect what marriage is all about.

The perfect pair wedding theme can be used in a wedding at any time of the year but in my opinion the perfect pair wedding theme will work best within the spring and autumn months. I do have a reason surrounding this belief and I’m sure you will agree with me. The perfect pair wedding theme will work best within the spring and autumn months due to the color of a pear. The colors that are associated with the fruit are white, yellow, green and brown, all of which are colors that focus around spring and autumn. So if you are hoping for a perfect pair wedding theme then I suggest to you that you incorporate these colors into the design and decor of your wedding.

You could get flowers that focus on yellows and oranges to reflect the colors seen in a pear as well as using white table cloths with colored ribbon to complete the look. It is little details such as these that will tie your wedding theme together

One last aspect that will complete your look is table details. Place card holders, pear shaped candles, pear candy and pear shaped salt and pepper shakers will look amazing as your table pieces to finalize the look of your big day. There is of course one more aspect that will be present on the table, which are your wedding party favors. Typical wedding party favors associated with the perfect pair wedding theme include cookies and chocolates shaped as pears, soaps sculpted as pears, and trinket boxes personalized in the shape of pears as well as retro kitchen magnets. The ideas when it comes to unique wedding favors based on the perfect pair theme really are endless so the only thing left to do now is to go out and find the décor and wedding favors that are most suited to your taste and budget.

Craig Nathanson asked:


Have you ever thought about what your perfect work would be? How about the pattern of a typical work day for the rest of your life? What daily routine would get you excited and bring joy and happiness to your work?

This didn’t come with the job description

The problem with job descriptions is that they are defined by someone else. They rarely take into consideration what brings you fulfillment.

How do I get started?

Whether you work for yourself or someone else, it is critical to start with the idea of what would be just perfect for you. For example, when would you get up in the morning? Once up, what would your morning routine be? Would you start your day exercising, with a little run, or perhaps some yoga or meditation? Or would you make breakfast first instead? Would you eat alone or with others? Who would they be?

What would you wear to your work?

Sweats, suit, shorts?

What would be just perfect for you?

I’m sure by now you’re thinking, “What does all of this have to do with my job? After all, I go to my job and I’m stuck with the rest of the day based on how much time is left.”

Yes, that is the traditional way of looking at your work.

For those over you 40, I’m proposing a radical new way of looking at your work. You get to design your entire day around the work YOU want to do instead of just the limited time left over after an empty and meaningless day at the office.

Where would you go?

Where would you go for your work? What would be perfect for you?

Would you like to work from home, or would you prefer to work outdoors? Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Maybe you would rather drive a short distance to a small office and work with a small group of other people. Or perhaps you would enjoy working with hundreds of others around you in a large organization.

How about lunch?

When will you eat lunch? Where will you eat lunch? Who will you eat lunch with on a typical day?

Back in my corporate days, I remember sneaking out at lunch (I was in management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work?

This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to have support and love and downtime after your work ends each day. Coming home, instead, to someone who does not support the work you love will drain you and you’ll have less energy for your quest for vocational happiness and for the experience of life itself.

How will your evenings go?

When will you eat dinner? Who will you be with at dinner on a typical day? What will you do after dinner? What does your evening look like?

Will you spend the evening alone, with others, or a combination of the two? Your evenings are an important part of your perfect vocational day. This again, is something most employers don’t care at all about, unless you are spending your evenings at the office, of course! This is the difference between creating the perfect work for you, and just dragging yourself home after a long day at the office and collapsing on the couch.

When you do just a job, the quality of your downtime suffers as you worry about the next day of work.

What about sleep?

At the end of your perfect vocational day, when will you go to sleep? How will you go to sleep? What nightly ritual will you follow before bed? A little yoga, a warm bath, light reading, television, or intimacy with someone you love?

What’s perfect for me?

You must keep asking yourself this question, because no one else will do it for you. Be careful as you design your perfect vocational day, because you will indeed start to move towards it. Make sure you really know just what you want.

Typical job searching is all backwards

Most people look for jobs that are available with little thought to all the other hours of their days. The typical job description only covers the requirements of the job. I have never seen one that covers whether you should exercise or eat a big breakfast.

The point is: it’s critical to design what you want BEFORE you go looking for it.

Now you get to play by new rules

After many years of playing the work game the traditional way, now you get to change the rules. When you design the work day you want, you automatically start to alter your thinking, and you start to focus on what you want and what you do not want. Unless you place your focus on what you want, you’ll start to focus too much on what you don’t want in your work life, and then this is exactly what you’ll end up with.

Now at work

Once at work, what exactly will you do? What activities will align your abilities and your interests and bring you the most joy?

Joy?

Yes joy! Now that’s a question no one in the HR department will ever ask you about! This is where you must be specific. Your mind can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined when envisioning a work day that will bring you joy. You must create the reality you seek.

What are you working on?

Are you developing software, making sandwiches, teaching math, painting, speaking, doing financial analysis, taking pictures or promoting a new cosmetic product?

What would give you the most joy in your work? What would leave you breathless? What would make Monday your best day of the week and Friday the worst because you have to wait until Monday to resume your beloved work?

What work could you do now and continue to do until you stop breathing?

Why retiring will lead you to a quick death

The other day I received the enrollment package for AARP (American Association for Retired People) in the mail. This really scared me. Most Americans after 40 do not like their work, let alone love their work. They dream, instead, to one day retire, and then finally do what they enjoy. The problem with this strategy is that life tends to get in the way while making long range plans. After 40, crises will hit — it’s only a matter of when. If you are doing what you love, you have the best kind of health insurance. When your crisis hits, your work will give you the strength to ride out the storm, and then recover quickly.

You need to be specific

What are you working on that will last a lifetime?

Whether you are working for yourself or someone else, the questions are the same. What specific products or services are you offering in your perfect day of work? What are the features of each of these services? What are the benefits to others of what you are offering? Who are the ideal customers for your services? Day in and day out for the rest of your life, what type of person do you want to work with? Are they engineers, students, disabled children, artists or advertising reps?

Unless you are clear about it, you and your work will end up being mismatched.

Now what?

Ok, now you have the vision of your perfect vocational day. Is this a daily pattern you could follow for the rest of your life? Good! Now you can start to examine how to close the gap between your new vision and today.

For some of you, this will come easy. For others, years of external negative influences, and perhaps a little fear, might prevent quick action, and your next steps might have to be small.

The important part is that you start

Little steps turn into bigger steps. New possibilities turn into bigger possibilities. You are unique and special, and you have many gifts to offer the world. With a new vision of what would be just perfect for you, you can begin to create the second half of your life and work in a way that includes what is most important to you. As you plan your perfect vocational day, you will have begun moving down the path to an authentic life.

Can’t I just separate my life from my work?

This is just an excuse for not moving forward, and down deep, you know this is not possible. I wish it were, but it’s not. Your work and what you do impacts your health, your sense of self, your relationships with others and your overall happiness. Isn’t it worth taking just a little extra time to think about your perfect work life?

Before turning 40, we needed jobs and careers to build both our egos and our sense of self. After 40, jobs and careers are both limiting and outdated.

A new sense of urgency

After 40 when your crisis hits — and it will — you will have a new sense of urgency about your life and what to do with it. Your work, and what you do each and every day, is a great place to start.

I’ll be cheering you on as you go………

Satish Nair asked:


“Perfection can not be attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence” : Vince Lombardi, US Basketball Coach, author and trainer

Do you feel at any time you are ideal person or do you think you are perfect, if you have this in within you; surely, you have some problems in you. When we hear this from somebody, we obviously term him arrogant or proud; we meet such people everywhere, in offices, in personal life, in the society, everywhere. Self pride is a good thing one can have, but publicizing the same is not making any good. How one can say that “I am ………… and you are………….”, nobody can, all persons are unique on his own ways and there are several qualities differentiating one from another. Nobody is perfect, in fact can’t be, people can be having good qualities and lacking some other qualities, one may be competitive in some fields and others are efficient in other areas, nobody can be perfect in every areas, though one’s ego tends him to think him perfect.

As Vince Lombardi commented perfection can not be attainable, but the excellence can be. If otherwise somebody start to think he is perfect, he may be a grievous person and a tough nut to crack, we should take care of him, he carries the most destructive weapon with him, i.e. Ego, his ego can hurt others and make the relations sore severely. Most people like to avoid such persons, for not being hurt by his words. We know that we can not attain perfection

We are socially bounded and we can not live without interacting with other people and when we run over the people by our might for the purpose of getting command over them. We need to talk to them this moment or the other moment, it is necessary that we have to communicate with others so that we can gain information about various things. If we do not have this attribute within us, we have to have the same from somebody, for which we have to request them to provide us and instead of requesting, we advice them to provide, then chances are that we will not have it never.

We know many things, which others don’t know, however this does not mean that we know everything, nobody knows everything in the world, the knowledge is just like an ocean and we are just a drop of water in that ocean. Though we can be proud of what we already know, we do not arrogant about the knowledge base we have. We can find out plenty of humble people, they do have sufficient knowledge than us.

We should be cooperative, honest in our dealings and our integrity is clear to others, so that a good relationship is developed, otherwise the mutual understanding may miss from the relations, instead of boss-subordinate relationship is developed, this isn’t a aspect you are expecting. Attitude makes a lot of difference. If you have a good attitude with required skills, you are the winner. The following tips may help you. Here, there are some tips to behave when we start to develop a relationship.

How to behave when we start a relationship?

·         Be humble and polite to others.

·         Do not criticize anyone, as others can also criticize you on the same point.

·         Always be professional and do not take anything personal, of course in the office and do not carry anything to home. Leave the things at office only.

·         Be friendly with your colleagues and do not get involved in any argument.

·         Do not talk loudly when you talk over the phone or to your colleagues. Talk in a soft and clear voice.

·         Wear fresh and neat clothes and if possible use nourishing sprays.

·         Always be punctual.

·         Complete your assigned task within the time frame.

·         Do not procrastinate (delay)

·         Do not talk about politics and religion in the office premises.

·         If you are invited for a party or any party, try to attend it atleast for some time. That is the best place to know more about your colleagues.

·         Do not play music loudly, especially on the mobile.

·         Be as easy going. Do not get the “tough guy” label.

·         Attend meetings regularly.

·         Be enthusiastic and energetic

·         Be an active member of your team and be a team player

·         Try to be helpful to others.

·         Be a good listener.

·         Don’t argue with anybody on anything, the others may know better than you.

·         Do not interrupt when someone else is talking.

·         Be a good learner; hear whatever others say, though you know better on the subject.

·         Discuss but do not argue.

·         Do not lose your credibility & finally

·         Do not feel yourself “Mr. Perfect”. Even if you have plenty of qualifications to adore your visiting card, remember, the qualifications do not make a person perfect, the human being is a combination of various qualities, attributes, traits, hence respect others and their feelings.

It is your right to proud about yourselves that you are key figure in many ways and subjects; however you should not impose this upon others, which make the relationships spoiled. For every relationship, we want to get out of the feeling that we are perfect so that a comfortable space is created for developing the right and appropriate relationship, for which we can work comfortably to have it cordial.

·         Develop the right attitude about your life and you will not need a life coach.

·         Develop the right attitude about your family and you will not need a marriage coach.

·         Develop the right attitude about your relationships and you will not need a relationship coach.

·         Develop the right attitude about your work and school life and you will not need a career coach.

·         Develop the right attitude about money and you will not need a finance coach.

I would iterate that nobody in the world can be perfect, if we chase the perfection, we can attain the excellence, never we will be able to attain perfection .

Sacha Tarkovsky asked:


Is perfection possible? Is man as a collective or singular entity capable of perfection? What is perfection anyway?

These questions have been philosophical dilemmas for ages, and some of humankind’s greatest minds have attempted to answer them.

With all humility, this article will not attempt to answer what Aristotle, Sophocles, and Plato could not.

Instead, it will take the reader on a tour of how we perceive perfection, and in it, find man’s attempt at Godhood.

What Is Perfection?

If we use language to understand what perfection is, from the Latin (and taken from the Greek), it means something that is finished, or complete. Aristotle was a bit more exact, as the Greek word for it is teleos (finished). Aristotle explained that for something to be teleos (perfect) it must.

• Be competed, with all necessary components, and

• Have the quality of being something of the kind that nothing could be better, and

• Had attained its purpose.

To the mind of this greatest of all thinkers, this was perfection. Other great thinkers and most people attribute perfection only to God and His works, which are perfect.

Analogy in Everyday Life

Which one of us would not wish to be perfect? Such an ideal thought. However, we have certain analogies in everyday life to guide our thoughts.

When simple carbon, but means of heat and pressure, crystallizes into a diamond, we feel that carbon has reached perfection.

Note: Actually R. Buckminster Fuller felt carbon had reached its perfection in Fullerene.

It’s a good analogy anyway to point out that simple carbon reaches perfect in its completeness as diamond.

Saints of All Religions

What is a saint? Is he or she a perfect person?

This is a hard question, but in fact, a saint is usually someone who has, like the carbon, been transformed into some complete state which we would perceive as being perfect.

It does not matter what religion is viewed, their saints are always people who had by the example of their lives, attained some sort of perfection.

Is Perfection and Imitation of God?

By simple reasoning, if most of us consider as God (or the Creator, or the Universe, or Higher Power, whatever someone wishes to call it) as perfect, then if a person by the example of their own life becoming perfect is imitating God.

That means if one person can do it, all people can do it. The logic carried on, that means that all of us are potential saints. We all have the power to imitate God by making ourselves perfect.

Man’s Attempt at Godhood

Literally all esoteric religious thought, and even mainstream religious thought sometimes, gives us the impression that we all have godlike powers.

The power of creation, though the use of thought has been widely discussed and is a very popular subject today.

If we consciously understand the universal principle of love, and its role in creation, and added to that our own affinity to the creator of the universe, then being perfect can also be called our personal attempt at Godhood.

Its all possible.