Season 1 Recap: What does Good Enough For Now mean to you?
In this episode, we recap interview guest answers to the question, "What does Good Enough For Now mean to you?". The first season of Good Enough For Now resulted in so many good nuggets of golden advice from our guests.
Take a few minutes, get out a pen or your phone notes app and jot down some wisdom to take you into the next chapter of your life. Or simply listen and reflect.
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Stephanie (00:00):
Hi there, it's Stephanie. I am so excited to share this episode with you. It's a little something different. So as you all may know, at the end of every interview, we ask guests, what does good enough for now mean to you? They have all had such interesting answers and not one of them is the same as the other. So I thought as we kicked off the new year, it might be a good reset for all of our minds to go through an exploration of what good enough for now means. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have, and I look forward to seeing you very soon as I relaunch. Good enough for now all by my lonesome, but I know I won't be alone because you'll be following along and listening with me as we continue our conversations aimed at dismantling perfectionism and helping us all feel a little bit less alone in our journey through life and a little bit more together. What does the phrase good enough for now mean to you?
Laurence Sevy (01:08):
Just do your best and if you do your best. You can't be disappointed,
Linda Lautenberg (01:12):
Like really enjoy the now. Be aware of what now is instead of thinking about good enough for now, because I have to get someplace else. You know, pay attention to what's going on now and enjoy the ride.
Rebekah Bastian (01:27):
It requires a sense of humility and removing the ego enough to be able to be wrong in public or fail in public, right? Because if it's just good enough, it might not always make it, but I love that that's the way I like to operate because you can do so much more when you're not just like waiting in the shadows for perfection.
Nathan Ryan (01:47):
When I think about good enough for now, I think it takes a certain amount of grace for yourself to say, this is me, this is where I'm at, and anything that I want to change about myself, I have the power to do that. Like in this moment. This one, I think acknowledging you've got the power to change things allows you to accept where you're at.
Aliza Licht (02:12):
We're taught in so many ways to sort of strive for these lofty goals for perfection all the time, especially as women, and sometimes it is good enough for now, and that is okay. And by the way, I don't think it's even a negative. Like it might be good enough for now and it might be great for later. All the seeds you're planting right this second could lead to something amazing in the future.
Megan Flatt (02:35):
Good enough for now, to me is just so empowering because it's telling us that we can take a step forward. We don't have to take 12 steps forward. We can take a step forward and then we can decide what the next right step is and the next right step and and so on. From there,
Ruthie Ackerman (02:49):
I think to myself, I am in a relationship that's really loving. I finally have a baby and there's no question that it was the right decision to have a baby. I can't imagine it any other way. I can't imagine if I had stayed in my marriage and not had a baby. And finally, I have created a career for myself that feels really fulfilling in all of these ways.
Judy Schoenberg (03:16):
Careers don't have to be linear. I thought that they did for a really long time that that's what success looked like, was advancing from one role to the next to the next, along this very clear trajectory and like there is a season and there's a time for different things to express who you are and what you care about in different ways, and if you could be okay with in this season, this is good enough for now, this feels good to me. I think that that would give people just a sense of grounding and compassion too for themselves, and they'll be able to extend more of that to others.
Melissa Bernstein (03:51):
Good enough for now means I'm okay as I am at this very moment, and I'm going to make the most of this very moment without any thought toward the future or the past. I'm just okay right now. I mean, I think that's the very definition of being present
Gesche Haas (04:13):
Evokes happiness because I think in the past my focus was always like, it's never good enough and especially I am never good enough. So there's so much joy and confidence in being able to say, this is good enough. Like I have value even if I didn't perfected this thing, or even if I haven't checked all the other options. But I have the confidence to judge that this is good enough and to also enjoy the benefits of what I've built and really, really value it.
Baily Hancock (04:44):
I love the title of your podcast and I think if more of us could focus on this exact moment and being happy with what we have, we would significantly be happier in the long run because we're not always wishing to be somewhere else.
Devan Sandiford (04:57):
I find myself always trying to strive and accomplish someone else's goals, and if I can just be enough for myself, then I don't ever have to keep doing that over and over. So I love the title and I love the feeling of like I am good enough forever.
Goly Anvary (05:12):
What comes to mind for me is what I'm doing right now, the choices I'm making are working right now, and that is perfect. It doesn't have to be any different. I don't need this title, I don't need this level of income right now. I'm happy with myself and the choices I'm making
Akilah Cadet (05:34):
When I hear good enough for now, it just is for me a reminder of learning and unlearning. If people feel that they've arrived, they aren't living life right? Because there's so much to continually learn from everyone, every moment, every time, and experience
Meghan Hellerer (05:51):
Drafting our lives, drafting our careers, letting all of it be drafts that we can, can learn from, get feedback from, and having it be this iterative approach and seeing that as more efficient, more effective, more authentic, more direct than a finished product focused thinking,
Amanda Thebe (06:16):
Why don't we work with where we are instead of fighting it? Being good enough for now to me is a win. It's not a sense of failure. It's like I made it, you know,
Tiffany Dyba (06:27):
I sort of lived in the world for most of my life of not feeling good enough and for me, I finally feel like that I also like don't care if I'm not
Ashely Feinstein Gerstley (06:40):
Perfect or perfection is really an enemy and moving forward, growing looks very good enough for now versus perfect, beautiful, shiny. So when you say it, I almost feel like it's a hug. You know, like, you're doing good, you're okay. Just keep moving. You'll learn versus this unattainable thing that makes you not even wanna try.
Rebekah Bastian (07:05):
I really like that idea good enough for now, knowing that it's almost like a contract with your community that we're doing this together and it's not gonna be perfect, but it's gonna keep getting better together.
