Perfectionism in Your Business Leads to Procrastination
I love what one of the women in my group coaching sessions said recently when we were discussing what holds us back from getting things done. She said, "Perfection is really just an excuse to procrastinate."
Seeking the all-elusive goal of perfectionism in your business is really just an avoidance method and an opportunity to keep from moving. I’ve learned that it serves me better to take consistent imperfect action as I work towards my objective. If I keep moving forward, I get clarity along the way. If I focus on the minutiae of the details being perfect, I stop and waste precious time.
Let me share with you a recent example of how to let go of perfectionism in your business…
This summer I piloted my Get It Done Challenge coaching program to 10 women. When I invited these 10 women to join me, I knew what I wanted to teach them and I knew what I wanted their end results to be. That was 80% of the equation.
What I didn’t know was the other 20%. I didn’t know the exact details of what my handouts would be, or what exercises we’d do in class, or what my members’ area would look like. I didn’t have all the details mapped out perfectly. At this point, would you have demanded perfectionism in your business—needing to have every detail worked out?
In a past life, I wouldn’t have sent the invitation out until every detail was figured out. Realistically for me that could have meant extra weeks and months noodling around the details. Wondering, wondering, wondering – which is really a code word for procrastinating. But instead I trusted that I’d figure them out before the class went live.
Who would have been served if I had waited? Certainly not the women who learned from my class and who received valuable tools, and certainly not me who received invaluable feedback. Now I can take this program to a much larger audience.
By taking imperfect action, I took the leap of faith for myself, and just did it. That was huge for me. Hopefully in this situation I can be a model for you to just step out when you think you’re not perfect and just put it out there anyway. (FYI – I received so much positive feedback on this program it confirmed that I made the right decision.)
If you want to learn how to let go of perfectionism in your business, please grab the audio recording of Get It Done 101 – How to STOP Procrastinating and Tackle Your BIG Ideas with Confidence…So that You Can Make More Money and Help More People! http://metromom.com/gidcall
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