Goals: progress, not perfection

Recently I’ve made some short term goals that I haven’t reached.

Sometimes I feel like that’s OK.  I am learning how to do better.  I am learning how to fail better.

But sometimes it just doesn’t feel good.  I start to wonder if I will ever be able to achieve what I want.

I started thinking how in the scriptures, Christ says “be ye therefore perfect.”  I know I will never be perfect in this mortal life.  But He still tells me that and wants me to keep trying. Even when it doesn’t feel good.

One of my exercise instructors likes to say, “progress, not perfection”. 

And perhaps the progress we make while we are reaching for perfection may be even more important than the perfection itself. 

How do you honor your progress when you fall short of perfection or your goal?

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