Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Life Philosophies: Improvement

For many years I have lived by this philosophy:

It's better than it was, and that's good enough.

I realized, however, as I mentioned this to my employees (I was a manager at the time) that it didn't quite sound the way I envisioned it. To read it as is, one may think that I am advocating inferior quality as acceptable, so long as it is a little better than the absolutely pathetic quality previously found.

While I suppose this may be part of it, I read it to say that if you are continually improving, and always striving to be better than you were before, you're going to do just fine: you can't give anything more than your best continual effort.

I've since discovered that, not surprisingly, President Hinckley advocated this same principle, but said it much more eloquently:

Try a little harder to be a little better.

And that's what I've been saying all along...

3 comments:

elegyrl said...

Good thing you are not bald or I may have to mock you for comparing your saying to that of a Prophet! Just kidding! I think you are amazing and inpirational with just about everything you say!

Betty Edit said...

elegyrl, I really need to pay you more for this...

elegyrl said...

Pay me more for what? Being inspired and uplifted by your awesome-ness??