The Mindset Mentor - Done is Better Than Perfect

Episode Date: March 27, 2017

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If you have been looking to take the next step up in your life, join the group coaching and watch your life take the next step up. Is being a perfectionist ruining your life? Let me give you an example of what I mean. Do you delay things because they're not perfect yet? Have you not started because you're still waiting for the perfect time? Have you ever started something but then not finished it because it's not perfect? It's not what you wanted it to be. Are you someone who wanted to

start a blog or you wanted to start a YouTube station or you wanted to start a podcast or you wanted to start any of these things but you haven't started because it's just not perfect yet? It's not the perfect time or the content you've been making isn't perfect. Or are you an artist or a musician or any of these things that it's just not, it's not perfect yet. You want to work harder. You want to make sure the stuff that you're putting out is perfect, right? I want to share a phrase with you that will help you out. Done is better than perfect. Getting something done is better than making sure that it's 100% perfect. They did a study not too long ago and found out that when someone thinks they're done,

they're about 95% of the way done. When someone thinks that they've done a perfect job, they've done about 98%. So the difference between done and the difference between perfect is usually only about 3%. But sometimes that extra 3% can hold somebody back from following their dream. It can hold somebody back from actually starting what they want to start. And so you have to ask yourself, is perfectionism ruining your life? Is it getting in the way of your true potential? Another question to ask yourself is this, are you really a perfectionist or is that just a fear that's being masked by perfectionism? I'll give you an example of what I mean. You might have the fear of failure or the

fear of success or the fear of rejection or the fear of being judged, not being good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or fit enough for one of those things. But you're telling yourself you're a perfectionist. So therefore you don't start in order to actually not come in contact with the real fear that's happening. And so you have to ask yourself that question. Number one, am I actually a perfectionist? Number two, am I a perfectionist? Or is it just a fear that's being masked as perfectionism?

Because in reality, perfectionism doesn't really exist. We're all perfectionists. reality, perfectionism doesn't really exist. We're all perfectionists. But what really is happening is perfectionism is just you holding yourself to a standard that you might not be at yet. And if you don't push yourself to at least finish stuff, you'll never actually get to the standard that you want to be at. We all have really high standards for ourselves. We all want to shoot for the moon and have really great things that we accomplish, whether that be a blog or a website or a song or a piece of art. But unless we actually get out there and do something, we'll never get anywhere near it. And so the phrase that I want you to remember for today is done is better than perfect.

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