The Perfect Blog

NO SUCH THING some would say!

Myself included, until I attempted to accomplish exactly that MY Perfect Blog. 

So within the confines of Bloggers Template Designer and my limited Blogging know how I set out ...

On the surface it seemed a relatively straight forward project, until one realised just how many decisions one needed to make in order to produce a blog that would satisfy my Perfectionist tendencies.

As time ticked on, progress was slow and much attention given to design matters only the Perfectionist’s eye would discern.

I played around with draft posts comprising of a whole lot of gobbledygook and random bizarre images, to ‘get a feel’ for what posts would actually look like if I was to ever get this baby off the ground.

After a whole lot of peer pressure and a deadline looming, I finally appealed to the wisdom and expertise of an experienced Blogger friend who willingly took me on a "Bloggers for Dummies" crash course and in one evening had me poised to go live.

Or so I thought,

To my horror I was in fact ..... live!

 
A view of the stats showed people from Australia, Malaysia, Denmark, US, Singapore, and Germany had already stopped by to peruse and scrutinise my unfinished, flawed, imperfect blog.

Arrgghhh it was a Perfectionist’s worst nightmare!

My wide eyed possum in the headlights stare did nothing to convey the inner turmoil I was experiencing.  I sat momentarily in the safe haven of ‘denial’ then found myself rapidly rolling through the other stages of grief, until finally we erupted into laughter and I arrived at acceptance.  I had been so engrossed in colour harmony and fancy fonts that I had overlooked the simple act of choosing a setting to maintain the privacy of the blog until I had gotten things just right.

So that was that... I had learnt a valuable lesson, and I was no longer on a quest to fashion a perfect blog.  I resigned myself to the fact that there would always be a myriad of blogs out there that would far outshine mine. 

A good enough blog would just have to do, after all “perfection is via imperfection” some would say!   

What 'good enough' things have you had to resign yourself to?

image by Mitchell J. Goldstein