LJM Associates Ltd

  Perfection often gets in the way of action. We have all had those moments when we sit down to start a project, at work or at home, and instead of getting on with it we quickly get stuck.... the blank piece of paper, the wardrobe we need to sort out, the kitchen cupboards that could do with tidying up, again.... The challenge is that perfection is always running ahead of you - what was a good job today, may not look like it tomorrow in retrospect. Academic papers I wrote nearly twenty-five years ago were of their time, when we had less knowledge, less understanding. Today I write from a different perspective, have honed my craft more and learned so much more, but that does not weaken the value of those early papers within their time and place and as a marker of where thinking was, what thinking emerged on the journey to today. So perfection is a moving target, we can lack confidence which leaves us perpetually in the 'delay loop.' In the delay loop, our minds and our bodies ar...