TEM Coaching Chat: Fear in Fancy Shoes
TEM Coaching Chats are back!
Today’s was inspired by re-reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s wonderful book, Big Magic.
I will be reading it for a third time within a couple of years - it’s that good!
TEM271: Being willing to fail
A reminder from Allison Emm about why we must be willing to fail.
Read MoreTEM247: What procrastination actually is
What procrastination actually is and the lies we tell ourselves to avoid some uncomfortable truths.
Read MoreTEM242: Stop researching and start doing
Why sometimes you just have to start doing because you'll never have all of the information.
Read MoreTEM225: Fear of the future
A look at how easy it is to be blinded by an attachment to the present and a fear of the future.
Read MoreWaiting for perfect
“Waiting for perfect is a never-ending game.”
—Seth Godin from his blog post “More right”
Your website will never be perfect.
(No website has ever been better at sales conversions than Amazon yet they are constantly tweaking and improving it which means it’s not perfect.)
Your book will never be perfect.
(You can always do just a little more research before you actually start writing. Or a little more editing before you share it with the world.)
Your presentation will never be perfect.
(Oprah has never given a perfect speech or conducted the perfect interview. She has too much self-awareness to ever think anything couldn’t be improved somehow.)
Your pitch will never be perfect.
(You can always tighten things up or add one more contextual detail that will resonate just a little more with your target audience.)
Your performance will never be perfect.
Even if you “hit” every note and make no “mistakes”, the interpretation could always be a little better or more informed.
Your video will never be perfect.
You can always get the lighting just a little bit better or make some subtle improvements to the script.
Waiting for “perfect”, whatever the hell that even means, is simply a form of hiding. Possibly the best advice I ever received was either do the thing as well as you can at that moment in time and then share it with the world or don’t do the thing at all.
Because waiting for perfect is a never-ending game.
A photo of my dog for no reason other than it makes me happy.
The big three
In a blog post, Seth Godin lays out the three things we should shoot for: First, fast and correct. But it's his warning about fear of shipping that is resonating most with me this morning.
Another must-read from Godin.