Comments on: When is OK Good Enough?

By: Credit Repair Forum

Credit Repair Forum — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:07:06 +0000

Thanks for the great read and great comments by your readers! Always a joy.

By: DR

DR — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:04:09 +0000

LIssie, you’re my hero!

By: LIssie

LIssie — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:20:32 +0000

Well I don’t live in the US! Nothing personal but in NZ I got 4 weeks annual leave which is common for professionals (in Australia 5 weeks is more common) – I went at Xmas so that’s another 6 days of public holidays (2 Xmas, 2 New Years, 1 local day in Jan and a national day in early Feb) and from memory I took the rest unpaid – or anticipated leave. To get 6 months off – I resigned!

By: DR

DR — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:50:15 +0000

LIssie, a 7 week trip! Now that sounds like fun. We took a 12 day trip this summer, which was our longest to date. How did you manage 7 weeks off of work?

By: LIssie

LIssie — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:43:52 +0000

A couple of years ago I had just got back from a 7 week trip and one of my colleagues said – where are you off too next? To which I admitted not having thought yet – being out of both leave and cash! She said “oh you’ll find somewhere – I can’t imagine you without a trip on the horizon”. When I thought about it I realised she was right – if I don’t have a trip at least in the concept stages I am miserable. We are currently living overseas having just done 6 months on the road and I am suddenly reading all about European river cruising – can’t afford it though, yet!

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:24:18 +0000

I think this is what it’s all about, clarity about what you want to accomplish. If you can answer what is “enough,” I think you will be much happier.

In a way, I am in the same boat as you — constantly seeking for better and more. Because, I still haven’t find my “enough” yet.

By: plonkee

plonkee — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:59:33 +0000

If you feel overwhelmed with what you do, then you’re not actually ok. I’m quite a lazy person, so this tends to stop me overloading myself, but it does mean that I can end up with the wrong priorities.

By: Chief Family Officer

Chief Family Officer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:15:49 +0000

As someone who has a tendency to put too much on her own plate, I would say that OK is good enough when trying to do more diminishes instead of enhances one’s quality of life.

By: Todd McKeever

Todd McKeever — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:12:51 +0000

Clarity and context are a beautiful thing, thanks for the fuller picture – “friend”.

By: The Friend

The Friend — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:56:22 +0000

Now, DR, you kinda missed the point didn�t you. I didn�t say don�t write the novel. Although technically I did say �you�re too freakin� old� but that was followed by something like �to abandon your career, and just launch that of a novelist�. It was a minor point anyway.

Let�s put some context to it, though. Our conversation was about some of your latest projects being a bit overwhelming–your complaint, not my observation. My point was simply that you and your restlessness seek it out and for reasons I can�t understand. If you today decided to launch project novel, you would drive yourself crazy with the demands of your novel writing with everything else going on in your life and you would treat it as is it�s something you had to do. With what purpose? When you finished your novel, there is no way you would be happy with the outcome. Successful or no, you would immediately turn to find the next thing.

So you pose the question of �when is OK good enough?� It�s the wrong question, at least for you. For you, the better question might be �What am I looking for?� Because there�s just no way to get around this part–you don�t have just �OK�.