When perfection is a goal…

Life without purpose is senseless. This is why each of us need a goal. Something that will motivate us and push us forward.
The main problem with most goals is the fact that some day you will end your journey. And then, for a moment you will feel… weird. On the one hand you will be happy, because “this is already it”, but on the other hand you’ll feel uncertain, because you will have to find another goal.
How long will it take?
What if you won’t find anything?
And that’s the beauty of mastery. That’s the beauty of trying to reach it. Why?
When perfection is your goal the endless journey is waiting for you.

Having a purpose, a goal, is a great motivator. It allows you to go further than you ever presume, to reach beyond your limits. This helps you to learn, to experience things. It really means a lot to know that you are “going somewhere”. That on the end there’s the goal worth all this effort and sacrifices.
It makes you happy.
It fulfills you with passion.
Each day.
Even when you face challenges, issues, or problems.

But some day this journey will end. You will reach the endpoint. You will reach your goal.
At that moment you will probably experience great satisfaction.
But nothing lasts forever.. Yes, you are happy, you really are. But… there’s no longer a goal. You have to find another one. And somehow you feel a little bit sad. At least, until you find another purpose.
Sometimes you even truly would like to continue the journey and not be in place that you had tried to reach so hard.

But what if meeting the end would never happen? No pauses between one goal and another? A continuous journey that makes you happy? That pushes you forward?
That’s how your life will look like when mastery will become your goal.
You only have to accept the one thing - you cannot reach it. Continuous growth through self-development gives you strength, teaches you, experiences you. But the mastery? This is something that always will be out of your reach.

When perfection is your goal there would always be something that can be done better. “There would be a room for improvement” as people in IT used to say. And you will always find things to improve.
The journey would be never-ending.

As Daniel Pink wrote, mastery is like an asymptote. You will get closer to it each day. Maybe one day you will even be so close that it would looks as if you almost have it.
And this tendency will go to infinity. You won’t get rid of the word “almost”.


But… well… you can always try to reach this goal anyway.


Good luck!
And I wish you a great journey.