Good Enough Is Better Than Not At All
I’ve been sitting on an Instagram post for weeks now. It’s supposed to be a recap of our 14th anniversary (which was May 9th), thanking the sponsors who made parts of it possible (Shout out Lemoni Cafe, Best Day Brewing, and Blend Cookies USA). Simple enough, right?
Except I’m not thrilled with the product photos I took. The lighting was off, the composition felt rushed, the whole thing just doesn’t look as polished as I wanted. So I’ve been putting it off, trying to figure out how to edit them into something better, which isn’t exactly my strong suit.
Meanwhile, the moment keeps getting further away. The gratitude I wanted to express is gathering dust in my drafts folder. The people who might have been interested in hearing about our anniversary are moving on to other things. The sponsors who supported us are waiting for acknowledgment that may never come because I got hung up on whether the photos were Instagram-worthy.
This is how I get stuck sometimes. I let the pursuit of the perfect version prevent me from sharing the good enough version. I convince myself that if I can’t do it exactly right, it’s better not to do it at all. But that’s just perfectionism disguised as standards.
The real loss isn’t that my product photos aren’t magazine-quality. It’s that my gratitude is trapped behind my need for everything to look flawless. The people who helped make our anniversary special deserve better than my hang-ups about lighting and composition.
Sometimes sharing imperfectly is better than not sharing at all. Sometimes good enough is actually good enough. And sometimes the thing that matters most, the gratitude and connection, gets lost when we’re too focused on making everything look perfect.
I think it’s time to hit post.