Go Hard or Go Home

This has been my motto for years.  I think if you are going to do something - anything - you should go hard or go home.  What's the point in doing a half a$$sed job at anything? There is no point if you ask me.  I think every effort should be given your all and if you can't do that you should not even bother.  But with age and experience comes wisdom and I am slowly realizing that my "go hard or go home" motto is posing a few problems in my life and I should probably consider the notion that maybe going hard isn't necessary all of the time. 

So when is my motto a huge issue?  Where do I begin?

• When I refuse to exercise because I don't have at least 1 hour daily to commit to it
• When I think "going hard" means that I have to finish the plate no matter how much food is on it
• When I feel the need to go above and beyond what is required of me for a job when I really should be doing something else with my life
• When I plan to cook 101 different dishes for Christmas (and quite a few from scratch) when everyone would probably be cool with me doing half the work
• When I neglect my writing because doing just 30 minutes a day feels like a joke (after all, a real writer would spend hours writing, right?)

This is what I have realized - sometimes "going hard" is not an option. Sometimes we just have to do the best we can based on our circumsatnces and that just has to be good enough. So, when I am not able to give things my all I have to realized that giving them my best (even if it's not what I ideally want to give) just needs to be good enough.  I vow to start taking it easy and realizing that I don't have to go "home" because of that.