How good is 'Good Enough'?

My mentality is this; 'I can always be better.'

I can't live any other way to be honest. The thought of just kicking back and letting oppertuinites pass me by is totaly alien and in all honestly the thought frightens me. If I'm not out there doing something then what is the point? It just means that I'm falling behind, I'm not making any contribution to life in general and effectivly I am useless. Hence my ethos is to be out trying different things, getter better, but enjoying it on the way.

Recently though I've been thinking, you see I was asked: "How good is 'Good Enough'?"

First of all I prepared to say; when I am the best I can be. However I quickly realised that this would not do for a very obvious reason: If I wish to be the best I will go out and achieve, yet as soon as a new oppertunity comes along I will no longer be the best and so I will have to work untill I can be at the top again. This however will not last forever as something new comes along.

Hence I deduced that quite possibly I could never technically be the best for an extensive period of time, it is in fact a visious circle that keeps going around and around and around.

So I went back to the question and really searched myself for an answer, and guys I'm still looking. How good is good enough?

Why do we do things without thinking?

I have been thingking about all those times when you do certain, silly, stupid things and all you have to say afterwards is "I wasn't thinking" or "I didn't think..." I've thought long and hard about all those times and I'm yet to find one with a positive outcome. Really this just brings to light the well worn saying "Action with out thought is dangerous."

For me it seems that despite this being know to us all, we choose to ignore it at times when really we shouldn't. More importantly perhaps, we often do so when the stakes are high for not only ourselves but others too. Yet no matter how many times we are warned to think before doing, most of us -myself included- fail to adhear to our warnings and also past experience.

Now I'm no specialist in human behaviour, hell I know next to nothing about it, but surely this is a major flaw of ours? If we constantly make the same mistake -albeit under different circumstances- without learning from it? Is there a reason for our falings?

What is really annoying though is our habit to point this out when others do it, I mean many if not all have found ourselves saying " What were you thinking? Oh that's right you weren't!" Now I don't enjoy being hypercritical but I myself have done this and then thought afterwards "What right do I have to say that?"

Is there just something about this shared human error that we like to point out? Or is it perhaps that we don't want to feel like we're the only ones who have done it? Either way I think it's fairly safe to say perhaps we should focus more on making sure we don't act without thought rather than scold others for doing so.

My First Thought

So this is my first blog and I really thought long and hard about what to write it on, in the end I decided that it being my first daily thought I should write it on the first thought I have. So when I woke up the other morning I thought to myself what is my first thought?

Now I realise that my first thought probably wasn't actually this, however in my haste I seemed to have forgotten what it actually was. So having resolved that today's thought was useless I decided to try again the next day.

However the next day I completely forgot about my thought and it was only as I lay in bed that night did I remember my task and subsequently curse myself for doing so. Now it was here that I thought that perhaps my first thought isn't worth writing about, however I then went on to think that is any thought worth writing about and suddenly I remembered Ralph Waldo Emerson's saying: "The ancestor of every action is a thought."

I have know of this for some time yet never really gave it much thought until I came to write this because I look around me and everything I now see is the result of a thought even - or rather especially- this blog would not be here with out someone, somewhere thinking "what if..." or "why..." 

Now I don't mean to go all philosophical on you but I have to be honest it had a huge effect on me and for the first time I thought "where would I be without a thought?"

I still don't have an answer but you know what? I'm thinking about it!