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Getting to Good Enough
A podcast to help you let go of perfectionism so you can live life with more ease, less stress and a lot more laughter. Your hosts are: Janine Adams, a Certified Professional Organizer, who is naturally good at good enough and Shannon Wilkinson, a Life Coach and recovering perfectionist who is learning to be better at good enough. Together they share tips, techniques and stories from their organizing and coaching practices, as well as their own lives, to help you worry less about perfection and…
Episodes
- Getting to Good Enough
Episode 136: What's Wrong with Perfectionism (Redux)
This week, we’re re-running Episode 68 from September 2019. The premise of our podcast is that we want to help you let go of perfectionism. We think this…
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Episode 135: Keeping Challenges Easy
Both Shannon and Janine love taking on time-limited challenges they find on the internet. In this episode, they discuss some of their favorites while offering…
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Episode 134: Pandemic Clothing Quandaries
Since our work and social lives have been curtailed by the pandemic, it seems like it should be easy to get dressed. Not so much. In this episode, Janine and…
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Episode 133: Getting Clear on Your Goals
It's the last month of the year and we have some goal-setting resources for you! This week, Shannon and Janine discuss the importance getting clear on your…
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Episode 132: Quieting Your Mind
These are stressful times. With the holidays, the global pandemic, passionate politics and everything else that's going on, your mind might be anything but…
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Episode 131: Trying Something New
It can be uncomfortable to try new things if perfectionism makes you worry about getting them right. In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss a recent class…
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Episode 130: Making the Best of the Season
The holiday season in 2020 is destined to be strange, thanks to COVID-19. In this episode Janine and Shannon talk about making the best of an unprecedented…
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Episode 129: Know Your Why (Redux)
This week, we're re-running Episode 21 from October 2018. It gets to the heart one of our most important recurring themes, so we thought it would be worthwhile…
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Episode 128: What Is Good Enough (Redux)
This week, we're re-running Episode 7, from way back in July 2018. It presents a core message of our podcast that we thought was worth another listen. Enjoy!…
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Episode 127: Changing Habits
The prospect of changing a habit can feel difficult--but it doesn't have to be. The pandemic has given most of us a crash course in habit changing! In this…
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Episode 126: Choosing Imperfection
The notion of choosing imperfection (rather than striving for perfection) is counter-intuitive to folks with perfectionistic tendencies. But it can be a…
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Episode 125: Authenticity
Shannon and Janine both embrace being authentic. But we understand that if you have a tendency toward perfectionism that it can be hard not to strive to appear…
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Episode 124: Incremental Improvement
Little by little, we can make big strides toward our goals. The trouble is sometimes it's hard to even notice the tiny progress that we make. In this episode…
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Episode 123: Adapt with Ease
Shannon and Janine recorded this episode after experiencing some pretty significant unanticipated events on our September trips. Shannon's eastern Oregon RV…
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Episode 122: Get Out the Vote
Janine and Shannon agree that this November's election feels like the most important in our lifetime. We're committed to helping get out the vote and want to…
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Episode 121: Productive Preparation
Shannon and Janine are both taking road trips the first week in September that require a good deal of preparation. This week we discuss how we've been trying…
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Episode 120: Sneaky Perfectionism
Sometimes perfectionism can hide from view so we don't even realize it's happening. In this episode, Janine and Shannon discuss that sneaky perfectionism, how…
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Episode 119: Process vs Product
For some people, the process of doing something is more important than the finished product and for other folks it's the other way around. This week, Shannon…
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Episode 118: Trello for Task Management
Both Janine and Shannon have bounced around using various task-management systems over the years. But Janine's been using a specific Trello task-management…
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Episode 117: Setting Boundaries
Setting boundaries allows you to live a life based on your core values. This week, Shannon and Janine discuss getting in touch with what's important to you as…
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Episode 116: Marginal Value
Our lives these days are shrouded in uncertainty. This week Janine and Shannon discuss building in some margin to make life--and decision-making--a little…
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Episode 115: Difficult Conversations
Shannon attended protests in Portland in support of Black Lives Matter just a few days before we recorded this episode. This week, Shannon and Janine talk…
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Episode 114: Productivity Blocks
For many of us, the pandemic has made a tendency to procrastinate painfully obvious. We're not as busy, yet we're still procrastinating. But there's hope! This…
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Episode 113: Good Enough on Zoom
Whether we like it or not, Zoom has become a part of the lives of many (if not most) of us, thanks to COVID-19. In this episode, Shannon and Janine letting go…
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Episode 112: Mid-Year Refresh
It's July already (finally?) and Janine and Shannon revisited the goals they set way back at the end of 2019. This week we discuss the value of taking some…
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Episode 111: Perfect Floundering
If you're uncomfortable with doing something imperfectly it's hard to learn new skills. In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss opening yourself up to…
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Episode 110: {GEIP} Vanessa Foerster
What if you were able to shed your perfectionistic tendencies so that you could create something BIG in the service of doing GOOD? That's what our amazing…
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Episode 109: Just One Thing
If you feel overwhelmed by everything that's going on around you, it can be hard to do anything. In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss how choosing just…
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Episode 108: Ready to Vote?
Voting is always important. But this year, at least in the U.S., being able to vote feels more important than ever. And because of the COVID crisis, voting…
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Episode 107: Balancing Discomfort
Protests over police brutality being met by police brutality. A global pandemic. Coming to terms with the fact that not being racist is not enough--we need to…
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Episode 106: #TheShowMustBePaused
We are taking this week to amplify black voices and share resources to learn more about becoming an ally and anti-racist. We are learning how to do this. We’ll…
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Episode 105: Enjoying Imperfection
Just think how much easier life would be if you could enjoy imperfection rather than fretting about it. Shannon and Janine's discussion on enjoying…
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Episode 104: Try Compassion
What's the opposite of judgment? It's compassion. That profound realization is what sparked this episode. This week, Janine and Shannon discuss the need to…
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Episode 103: Dealing with Imperfectionists
Negotiations can be difficult when one person is a perfectionist and the other isn't. In this episode, Shannon and Janine address a question from a listener…
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Episode 102: The Good Enough Decision
Making decisions can be particularly challenging for people who have perfectionistic tendencies. And with so much uncertainty right now, decision making is…
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Episode 101: Cultivating Friendships
During this time of isolation, our friends are more important than ever. In this episode, Shannon and Janine discuss making and keeping friends, without…
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Episode 100: Our 100th Episode!
This week Janine and Shannon are lifting a glass to this podcast's 100th episode. We spend this episode celebrating and sharing the lovely feedback and…
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Episode 99: Playing the Long Game
Getting caught up in perfectionism can be short-sighted. This week, Shannon and Janine discuss the value of tolerating the discomfort of imperfection in order…
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Episode 98: Stop With the Shoulds
In this episode, recorded in early March before the COVID-19 crisis started keeping us at home, Janine and Shannon discuss one of their least favorite words…
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Episode 97: Trying to Figure This Out
Navigating the waters of life during the coronavirus pandemic is challenging to say the least. This week, Shannon and Janine discuss the conflicting emotions…
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Episode 96: Adjusting to the New Normal
Most of us are staying home to stay healthy and stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. In this episode--recorded just three days prior to posting--Janine…
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Episode 95: Letting Go of Stuff
After talking last week about using what you have, Shannon and Janine turn this week to letting go of stuff as an alternative to using it up. We even innovate…
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Episode 94: Use What You Have
It's tempting to hang on to items to use for a special occasion. This week, Janine and Shannon discuss the benefits using what you have rather than buying new…
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Episode 93: Preventing Pileups
Bothered by an overabundance of paper and email? This episode is for you. Last week, Shannon and Janine discussed working through backlogs and this week we…
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Episode 92: Working Through a Backlog
When stuff piles up in your home or office it can overwhelming to contemplate plowing through it and getting rid of the backlog. Add perfectionist tendencies…
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Episode 91: No Regrets
Regret feels like a negative emotion, but in this episode, recorded in person in Walla Walla, Janine and Shannon discuss how considering regret can be a…
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Episode 90: Acting on Good Impulses
Good people (like our listeners) have many good impulses. But how often do you act on them? This week, Shannon and Janine discuss how perfectionism can get in…
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Episode 89: Mistakes Aren't Failures
Why do we beat ourselves up when we make mistakes? Mistakes aren't failures; in fact they can be viewed as successes. In this episode, Janine and Shannon…
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Episode 88: Less Is More
Shannon and Janine are living the "less is more" mantra this year as Shannon makes it a focus of her 2020 goals and Janine focuses on helping her organizing…
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Episode 87: Financial Peace
Money is a source of stress for so many people. One tool that both Janine and Shannon use to help them take the stress out of money and create financial peace…
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Episode 86: Anti-perfectionist Hacks
In recording this episode week after week, certain themes keep coming up in Shannon and Janine's conversations. This episode, we distill them down to four…
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Episode 85: Doing Good in the World
A listener left us a voicemail with an interesting question that we address in this week's episode. Listener Casey wanted advice on choosing what to do to help…
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Episode 84: Overthinking
Overthinking anything--but especially our goals--is really easy to do. And those folks with perfectionistic tendencies are particularly susceptible. This week…
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Episode 83: Good Enough Goal Setting (Redux)
Janine and Shannon are off on their own personal retreat days, so we thought it would be an excellent time to rerun our end-of-the-year post about goals and…
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Episode 82: {GEIP} Taking On a Personal Challenge
In this Good Enough in Practice episode, Shannon shares some exciting news: She just bought a plane ticket to Portugal, where she will walk the Camino de…
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Episode 81: Ambivalence
Sometimes when you can't get started on something or you're dragging your feet making a decision, ambivalence is the culprit. It can be sneaky, lurking in the…
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Episode 80: Expectations of Others
It's hard enough when we expect perfection from ourselves, but when we expect others to be perfect, we're introducing stress into our (and their) lives. This…
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Episode 79: Getting to the Important Stuff
This week's episode topic was suggested by a reader who said she she gets distracted by little things when she's trying to accomplish bigger and more important…
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Episode 78: Words Matter
Words matter when we talk with other people and language is also important when we're talking to ourselves. This week, Shannon and Janine discuss how the words…
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Episode 77: NaNoWriMo in progress
Janine and Shannon are participating in National Novel Writing Month this month, in which we're trying to write a 50,000 novel in 30 days. This month, we…