Not perfection but ihsan

Assalamalikum,

I've been watching the video for day 4 by Shaykh Muhammad Al Shareef on my ramadan wheel journal.The topic for today was perfection.According to the shaykh, we should not aim for perfection.As we all know, only Allah SWT is capable of perfection and is the most perfect.And for a human being to attain perfection, he should have lowest standards because perfection is impossible to attain.There are people who say they NEVER want to commit a sin and they ALWAYS want to do qiyam ul layl and so on.Basically, they want to be perfect in their ibadat.However, Shaykh Al Shareef considers this to be a flaw.The reason for the same is that someone aiming to be perfect aim for small things where they feel they're in control and can achieve perfection.They keep everything tiny so they can feel they're in control.They want to keep things small so they can be perfect.Hence, they cannot proceed in life.

QUESTION : What do we aim for then ?

As muslims we must aim for "Ihsan".The best translation according to the shaykh is excellence.We must strive for excellence in our relationships be it with our husband, in business,house and all.Above all, we must aim for ihsan in our worship or ibadaat of Allah SWT.
Imam Shafi (RAA) wrote a book and asked his to student to review it.The students went through the book and made some corrections.They brought it back to the Imam.Imam Shafi told them to take the book back and do more corrections.The students took the book back and found some more mistakes.They made some more corrections.They brought back the back to Imam Shafi ( RAA) who asked them to check it again.The students told him they checked it again and there aren't any more mistakes or corrections to be made.Imam Shafi ( RAA) understood the following ayah from the Holy Qur'an
Will they not ponder the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (Surat an-Nisa: 82)

And we must understand this too.We are children of Adam ( AWS) who ate from the forbidden tree.And when they realized their mistake they made the following dua.
"Rabbana zalamna anfusana, wa in lam taghfir lana wa tarhamna la-nakunanna minal-khaasirin."
"Our Lord! we have been unjust to ourselves, and if Thou forgive us not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers." (7:23)

We must learn from the example that we're human beings and are capable of making mistakes.We must also learn to repent as soon as we realize we've made a mistake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-HDXNN-k6o&feature=related#

May Allah SWT help us acheive steadfastness in our ibadat and forgive our shortcomings.

Assalamalikum