How green is it?

Who has the perfect life? The simple answer is of course, nobody. But when you are swinging away in the trenches, just attempting to grind out another day it may seem like a lot of other people have the perfect life and yours is just not worth the trouble.

We all have our days where questions like this come up. You see your boss with his trophy wife, Lamborghini and million dollar salary and think, man his life is perfect why couldn't it be mine. What you don't realize is your boss may be looking over at you and wishing he was still single, due to the constantly nagging wife, didn't have all the responsibilities of this company to take care of, the constant fear of his car being stolen and the huge amount of taxes that he has to pay.

They say the grass is always greener on the other side. I think in reality we just aren't able to look at anyone else's lawn without a skewed perspective. We have no idea what kind of time or effort go into the care of any yard but our own.

We should still strive to have the perfect life though right? Shoot for the moon and at the very least you'll end up reaching the stars. Aim for the ground and you won't go anywhere. There are so many different aspects to life though. There are spiritual,mental,emotional,financial and physical aspects to name just a few.

Around here when we talk about our vision statement and how we are going to constantly work to improve all aspects of our life, sometimes people tend to get a little overwhelmed. Excuses come up. People say well I don't really have time to work on all these different things. I'm gonna focus on just this one.

That is wrong thinking and acting because whatever you are not working to improve will steadily decline. Life does not hold still. If there is any area where you are not moving forward, you are moving back.

I think there is some kind of misunderstanding due to what seems like a mixed message, but really isn't. We say to do your best in all things and that we expect perfection from each other. We don't really expect perfection, although we act as if we do. We realize that nobody is perfect and we are all going to make mistakes. But we believe in holding one another to the highest possible standard, so that when we miss, we still do better than if we had shot for something more reasonable.

And when failures happen we aren't there to judge or condemn. We are there to hold out our hands and lift the person back to their feet and ask how we could assist them in succeeding next time.

We expect perfection and instantaneous change. Though we know there will be breakdowns and that massive change will take time. But that's the key there. We know that everyone can and will have massive improvement in every area of their lives if they are willing to work for it.

Think about star athletes like basketball or football players. They can do some pretty amazing things and set awesome records. A certain degree of change happens overnight, but mostly it takes time and effort. But do football players just focus on one stat and say to hell with the rest? No, of course not. They work on everything that they are expected to do at once. They make incremental change over time.

It would be unrealistic to ever expect 100% improvement in a single area of life all at once. Though it would be and is perfectly reasonable to expect and achieve 1% improvement in 100 different areas of life. And when you do this you are going forward in every aspect of your life and sliding back in none.

You may never reach perfection, but the more time you spend getting just a little bit better at every part of your life, the more people out there will be looking over at your yard and exclaiming about how green it is.