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How You Pictured It
A quick pep talk: Done is better than perfect
Sitting with things unfinished, unpublished, and maybe even unstarted for fear of it not being perfect? Listen in to this quick pep talk about the power of getting things done and letting the perfectionism go.
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Yesterday, I was driving my littlest, who's not so little anymore, he's nine, to soccer practice and he was telling me about practicing for their upcoming standardized testing. And he was so upset about the writing portion of the test. He said it was the only part that he wasn't going to do good on because he didn't know what to write. When I asked him more about it, he was telling me that they had to read a couple of passages and then give a summary or compare and contrast. I wasn't quite sure on exactly what they were supposed to do because neither was he. But he said by the end of the practice test, he hadn't written a single thing. Today's pep talk. This is what I told him, what I've told my clients lately, and what I'm telling myself. Done is better than perfect. I looked in the rear view mirror and I said, Hey buddy, can I tell you a little secret? He's like, yeah. And I said, you get more points for writing something than for writing nothing. The same goes for your business as well. And mine too. I'm in the middle of Spotlight for the website Launch Accelerator right now. And while I know there is so much more that I could be doing and could have done to prepare for it, I knew that if I waited until I had everything perfect, would not be spotlighting my offer again until probably June, maybe later, because I am not great at getting all of those little parts and pieces into place and I can overthink it and over perfect things to where they just don't get done. I have clients that are in the same boat. They've got a website that's beautiful. We've built it. It's ready to go, but there's one little thing that they're like still tweaking and tweaking and tweaking. And I'll tell them. Publish it. Publish it now. It's good. It's ready. And you can continue to tweak as you go. But having it out in the world and having other people be able to see it and connect with it is better than not. And the same goes with my launch. Being able to share with you about it, tell you about my program, and tell you that the doors are open, come on in, is better than me sitting here quietly hoping people come into the program. So what is it in your business? What are you trying to get perfect and not getting done? What needs to change there? How can you get past that perfectionism and understand that having it out in the world and having it done is better than not? I hope this little pep talk was helpful and I'll talk to you soon.