Episode #222
Perfectionism overvalues the end result and undervalues the process; sustainable success comes from focusing on the process you can control.
Start imperfectly and iterate—use Agile, Lean Startup, MVP, and Minimum Effective Dose to learn fast, adjust, and reduce risk.
Break big goals into the smallest next step, validate quickly, and accept mistakes and embarrassment as normal parts of progress.
But perfectionism is just seeing like it's only the end result that is of value. There's no value in the process.
If you launch, you can still quit. It doesn't, it's not a forever thing, right?
You don't need to get from step one to step ten today. You want to get from step one to step two. Or step zero to step one.
Breaking “procrastination by perfectionism.”
There’s something you want to do but you’re not ready. The timing isn’t right. You don’t have the skills. The “thing” isn’t yet perfect.
Here’s the problem. Deep down, you know it never will be. You’ve been caught in the loop of procrastination by perfectionism. You don’t do it because it’s not perfect and because it’s not perfect you don’t do it. The cycle leaves you in a perpetual state of feeling that one day you will make it happen but right now isn’t the right timing. Your fear of being embarrassed, losing, failing and hearing that little voice inside you say, “I told you that you should have waited.”
In this episode I address procrastination by perfectionism and give you concrete frameworks for breaking the procrastination by perfectionism cycle so that you can unleash your true potential.
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