Perfection: The Enemy of Good

A doctor once told me that when he was in medical school one of his professors told him, "George, always remember: Perfection is the enemy of good!" He told me this when we were working so hard at a clinic to solve a medical issue. The motto of his story was that when we achieve some good, we should be content to leave it alone. Very often our fussing over it in search of perfection actually ruins the good and we head for a setback.
How often do we do things in our riding a few times too many? Or perhaps we don't really have enough time to devote to a quality ride but we get on anyway, trying to reinforce the progress we made the day before and we end up messing up the good with our hurriedness. Or we feel the pressure of a competition coming up so we practice more and harder and things start getting worse! Perfection is really an impossibility! Think about it. Unless we are talking about a perfect world in heaven we really can never achieve perfection. Should we then give up trying? No! What we should do is aim for 'good'-----and then leave good alone. 'Good' IS possible! Let's all seek good and leave the perfection part to God.