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Everything you’re about to read is based on my own experience. It may be a personal take on something, a way to cope, or a helpful anecdote. Read on and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to write about.

 

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A Mighty Return
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A Mighty Return

I had won a ticket to see Frozen on Broadway, an epic continuation of the winning streak I’d been on. I’d never seen Frozen before and was super excited to see the story translated on stage. I got swept up in the Disney spectacle of it all and left the theatre feeling happy. I greeted the actors at the stage door but was starting to notice a shift. The security was extra ramped up even just from a couple weeks earlier when I’d won the Book of Mormon lottery. “Please put your Playbills out to be signed and do not touch the actors. Please do not ask them to stop for pictures.”

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Never let good be good enough
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Never let good be good enough

This was a catchphrase on a training video for a job I had many moons ago. A coworker and I had a running joke about it for a while because we both thought it was completely ridiculous, but in a weird way it’s kind of stuck with me. Could it be my perfectionist side coming out? Yes, of course. I always have this need to be “perfect” and make people proud, though often it feels as though nothing I do will ever be “good enough” so… is it true that I can never let good be good enough?

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