Are you ready to overcome perfectionism and get things done?
I was a perfectionist for so long. I was even proud of myself for being a perfectionist which is hard to imagine now. I am sure that I made everyone else around me feel that they needed to be that way too.
I realized that those expectations weren’t good for me and it definitely wasn’t good to place those expectations on my team. I had to change the way that I looked at the things that challenged or scared me and see them as experiments instead.
I thought that being perfect was what made me better and helped me accomplish things in the best way. What it did was it moved me into a place of procrastination instead. It prevented me from trying things that I wasn’t sure that I could do and I hesitated to start things that I didn’t know how to do.
Thinking about new things as experiments freed me up to new possibilities. I could take small actions on something I didn’t know how to do or never attempted before. The important part of this action was that I would learn a lesson from what I tried or make a shift to try something else.
Taking imperfect action moved me out of a perfectionism mindset. It gave me the confidence to make progress when I wouldn’t have even tried before.
Where could you take imperfect action?
“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worry. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” T. Harv Ecker
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