{"id":1167,"date":"2017-06-21T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/wellness-wednesday\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:21:03","slug":"okay-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/wellness-wednesday\/okay-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"When it\u2019s Okay to be Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1174\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/blogs.tops.org\/wellness-wednesday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/note-to-self.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1174 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/blogs.tops.org\/wellness-wednesday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/note-to-self.jpg\" alt=\"notebook-with-inspirational-messages\" width=\"375\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MAREKULIASZ\/ISTOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"first-paragraph\">\u201cGood enough\u201d rarely cuts it. If you were having surgery or your car\u00a0were\u00a0being repaired, you likely would not settle for good enough and would want to be as close to perfect as possible. But there are other times when good enough is, well, good enough. Take your meal or exercise plan, for example. Have you ever beaten yourself up for not following a diet perfectly or skipping the gym? When we demand nothing short of perfection from ourselves, we feel defeated when we don\u2019t deliver. We may even be tempted to throw up our hands and end up right back where we started.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve recently started kicking our workplace TOPS meetings off with something that I like to call, \u201cTell me something good.\u201d This is an opportunity for us to share something healthy we did over the past week, no matter how small it may seem. We give praise and props for things like walking during morning break, skipping the drive-thru and showing up for a workout even if we feel totally unmotivated. If we are pursuing perfection, it can be easy to overlook all of these \u201clittle victories.\u201d But it\u2019s the little things that keep us going and give us something to smile about.<\/p>\n<p>One unhealthy meal will not totally derail our efforts just as one workout will not automatically make us fit. It\u2019s the things we do over and over again that lay the foundation for our overall goal. Slip-ups, splurges, gains and plateaus are bound to happen. When they do, focus on what you\u2019ve been doing well, what adjustments you can make and how you can move forward.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase TOPS friend and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tops.org\/tops\/TOPS\/Real-Life-Guide.aspx\">Real Life<\/a><\/em>\u00a0contributor Dr. Michelle May, perfection isn\u2019t possible. Fortunately, it\u2019s not necessary either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood enough\u201d rarely cuts it. If you were having surgery or your car\u00a0were\u00a0being repaired, you likely would not settle for good enough and would want to be as close to perfect as possible. But there are other times when good enough is, well, good enough. Take your meal or exercise plan, for example. Have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-motivation","category-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>When it\u2019s Okay to be Good Enough - Wellness Wednesday<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tops.org\/wellness-wednesday\/okay-good-enough\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When it\u2019s Okay to be Good Enough - Wellness Wednesday\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cGood enough\u201d rarely cuts it. 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