I recently created a quick survey about how I can best support your creative projects and nearly everyone who took part, ticked feeling 'not good enough.'

I wish I could to say I was surprised to read but I hear it all the time in classes and feel it constantly myself.  But what exactly is 'good enough?'

I often wonder if the 'good enough' we hold ourselves to is even our own standards or whether it's been schooled or imposed on us from the outside.

Surely good enough should only be defined by asking the question: is this the best I can do, right now, in this moment?

After that, the standard we should be measuring is our fulfillment, development and curiosity,  Not in terms of some arbitrary scale of outside success, grades, qualifications or even financial gain.

Logically, it's easy to think this, but that doesn't deny the feeling of not good enough which accompanies developing, growing and learning - of getting better.  

It's not that we don't want the outcome from learning, but we know that on the journey to get better, we're going to have to give that uncomfortable feeling a piggy-back and that is tiring - it weighs us down.

But the reality is that the terrain or distance of 'getting better' doesn't change.  'Not good enough' merely makes the journey feel more difficult - but mountains are there to be climbed, right?!

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