<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="alignleft" />There are some tasks that require all of our effort and energy.  These types of tasks demand our best efforts and constant ongoing improvement.  For example, if you are a parent, you should always be performing at your best and constantly seeking to be a better parent.</p>
<p>On the other hand, there are routine, mundane tasks that each of us must perform regularly.  These tasks simply require a basic level of performance within a certain window of acceptability.</p>
<p>A doctor does not pour his cup of coffee each morning with the same degree of exacting focus that he employs when he performs surgery.  We are all confronted with the ongoing question, &#8220;When is good enough, good enough?&#8221; <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2010/09/good-enough-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Good Enough By Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":249,"date":"2010-09-05T06:15:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-12-03T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:24:18","slug":"good-enough-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/09\/good-enough-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Enough By Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>There are some tasks that require all of our effort and energy.  These types of tasks demand our best efforts and constant ongoing improvement.  For example, if you are a parent, you should always be performing at your best and constantly seeking to be a better parent.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are routine, mundane tasks that each of us must perform regularly.  These tasks simply require a basic level of performance within a certain window of acceptability.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor does not pour his cup of coffee each morning with the same degree of exacting focus that he employs when he performs surgery.  We are all confronted with the ongoing question, &#8220;When is good enough, good enough?&#8221; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/09\/good-enough-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Good Enough By Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}