Two things are on my mind today that may help you.
WE ARE NOT PERFECT!
Just recently on a training call, a weight was lifted off my shoulders. The lights turned on! I was enlightened and unburdened! Here’s the statement that helped me the most:
“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to GET IT GOING!”
We are NOT perfect - and – we do not HAVE to be perfect! Doing our Best does not require perfection! No, I’m not promoting becoming sloppy in your work ethics. By no means . . . but
Excellence does not require Perfection. In fact, trying to be perfect can slow you down tremendously! Allow me to explain:
I am one of those people who wants everything just so! I was taught early-on that anything I put in front of people is representing me (or the company) and so it needs to be perfect! For example, when I write a blog or article, I go back and tweak it over and over and line everything up, make sure the spelling and grammar are correct, center everything . . . tweak, tweak, tweak…. I want it to be perfect!
On the phone, I wanted every word to be perfect! For years, I wrote phone scripts and stuck to them for fear I would say the wrong thing or forget something! Oh my, what I went through just because I wanted everything to be perfect!
As you continue to write your blogs, make your phone calls, email people and whatever else you are doing, you will continually get better as you learn and grow! It does NOT have to be perfect!!
You don’t even have to KNOW IT ALL!! You can get started and LEARN AS YOU GO!
Excellence does not require Perfection. “You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going!”
That was SO hard to wrap my brain around, but you know what? Once you get this, it is very freeing and it will allow your production (instead of useless activity) to sky rocket!
As soon as I let that sink in, I wrote an email to my brother and wrote at the bottom that I’m sending this email out as-is! . . . and you know what? It was fine! It was perfect, just the way it was! Just as YOU ARE!
HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF ACTION:
My second thought tied right in with perfectionism. It came from a quotation from a Facebook friend that I picked up:
“A Woman of Words and not of Deeds is like a Garden full of Weeds!”
Have you just been sitting there, not moving forward in life? Are you just waiting for something to happen? What are you waiting for? Isn’t it time to take action? . . . and now you know you don’t have to do it perfectly!
JUST GET STARTED – and MOVE FORWARD! TAKE ACTION TODAY.
Do something each day to move you closer to your goal.
If you don’t have a list of daily actions you need to take each day to move your business forward, let’s talk!
In keeping with the spirit of this blog, I am going to resist the urge to line everything up just so and tweak it and instead, I’m letting it go as-is! I think you will enjoy it just fine as I wrote it! Well, ok, I confess, I did proof-read it! Secondly, I am going to “get it GOING” by Taking Action! How about you?
. . . ’til next time,
Loretta
HUGS: “Helping You Grow & Succeed”