None of our actions—whether it's having breakfast, meeting a friend for coffee, driving, fulfilling job priorities, setting recreational goals, making charitable donations, receiving a gift, taking care of our health, or deciding to make lifestyle changes—can be done perfectly.
Many of us were taught through school grades, evaluations from parents, family, and peers, to be perfect: to be perfect children, perfect students, perfect friends, perfect employees, perfect neighbors, or perfect citizens.
Some people spend an enormous amount of time and energy trying to do things “perfectly” because being perfect is considered “good” according to the way the mind has been trained for a long time.
The pursuit of perfection often becomes physically paralyzing, leads to burnout, causes mitochondrial diseases, and depletes the body’s energy resources.
The solution is not to bring in natural or synthetic supplements, but to stop the losses by educating the mind toward something else (like a cracked cup, it’s useless to add liquid if you don't seal the place of leakage).
In this case, the focus should be on impeccability.
The nature of the action doesn’t matter; the intention does.
Impeccability doesn’t depend on the result as perfection does.
Perfection is a result, while impeccability is a process.
An action becomes impeccable when it is done with balance, dedication, responsibility, and when it is the right action performed with the right intention.
Perfection is a finished product.
Impeccability is a way of seeing life.
An impeccable life is a complete life, even when it is not perfect.
Perfection may be the mark of a wise person who exists only as a fantasy, but impeccability is the mark of a learner who respects the material world and educates themselves daily in the integration of opposites.
What is the difference?
Perfection is a finished product. It depends on external evaluation, on someone’s opinion.
Impeccability is an unfinished, unpolished product. It depends on internal evaluation. You can be impeccable without anyone’s approval.
If we are in the midst of the Olympic Games in Paris, it’s useful to remember Nadia Comăneci’s performances in Montreal. In July 1976, she showed us an impeccable routine on the uneven bars, a performance for which the scoreboard wasn’t prepared, as a perfect score was considered impossible.
She made history in world sports with six more perfect 10s for the way she executed her routines. Not a perfect one, as my father (a keen expert in the field) explained to me, but an impeccable one.
Perhaps you should try this simple exercise that I often give as homework in private sessions:
Recall one of your recent actions that left you with doubts, uncertainties, or a sense of discomfort.
Review that moment with these questions:
-Was the task completed?
-Was it the most balanced thing you could do?
-Was it appropriate for you?
-Did you consider those around you?
-Did you do it thoroughly?
-What understanding was missing there?
-What thought and behavior pattern did you repeat?
If you need help, I warmly invite you to a private session, where not only will we find answers together, but we will take concrete steps from the perception of perfection toward impeccability.
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