It was that 'perfect' is a tense of a verb, in language; and is contrasted with the imperfect tense. Both are past tenses, and what distinguishes them is the completeness (or otherwise) of the action.
Thus, I worked this morning is in the perfect tense; whereas I was working this morning is in the imperfect tense. The point being that I was working this morning seems typically to lead to when... That is the work was interrupted and possibly not finished.
So one very practical aspect of perfection is the completion of activity. This really resonated with me. I have blogged before about Gestalt, and the idea of a cycle of attention; and how if the cycle is not brought to a satisfactory close, it results in 'unfinished business.' And that unfinished business is a drain on our energy.
I have also blogged before (many times in fact) about the importance of Attention as articulated by Nancy Kline in her Thinking Environment; and that the cardinal rule in that context is not to interrupt someone's thinking. By allowing (and indeed encouraging) someone to complete their wave of thinking, we are encouraging a perfected outcome for them (in this sense at least).
So there's an experiment to run: see how you can bring things to completion (even if that means acknowledging that you are never going to finish something, and ending the pretence that you will...) and see how that kind of perfection affects you.
