Ep 71: This can ruin your store's progress

This one thing can be majorly crushing your progress. 

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Welcome to the alley D show. I'm going to start today's episode off with a question. And I want you to really think about this question when I ask it. But. Okay. Are there times where you feel like your momentum is stopped because you are trying to chase perfection? So, what I mean by this is so many times as entrepreneurs, as business owners, store owners, brand owners, all the things. We can really slow down our progress, our movement forward. Because we. Are waiting for perfection. The perfect time to. Launch. The perfect time to create content. The perfect time to send out the email. The perfect time to buy more product, whatever the case may be. And what happens is when we're waiting for perfection to come along and. You know, strike. We ended up waiting forever. Because 99% of the time, we don't reach perfection. So, what I wanna talk about today is how is perfection showing up in your life and where is it slowing down the growth of your business? And I'm going to hit you with this quote. From, I'm going to quote myself, I guess we're saying here. But I was thinking about this last week and I was thinking about perfection and how I can see it seep into so many clients and so many students, and just so many store owner, friends that I have in general and how even in conversations in daily life when it's like, okay, I, yeah, I just, I hope it's going to be perfect. And I just want to go wait, stop. We don't, we don't need to shoot for perfection. So I want to, let me tell you the quote first, and then I'll tell you how we need to shift our mindset towards what I'm talking about in this quote. So when I kind of came up with, as I was listening, listening and thinking about this is don't ruin greatness. By trying to be perfect. Because our ultimate goal, I believe is greatness. It's to be great. It's not to be perfect. It's not perfection because that is unattainable. And that is almost impossible. So how can we show up every single day? And work our butts off. And try to get perfection. And we don't reach it. What's going to happen is we're going to feel really burnt out. We're going to feel like, man, I just, I want everything to be perfect. I'm showing up every single day. I'm I'm posting. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. But, but the reality is, is we can't really get to perfection. But what we can strive for is greatness. So again, don't ruin greatness by trying to be perfect. When you try to be perfect, you ruin your momentum. We get so caught up trying to make every little thing flawless that we stop moving forward altogether because sometimes we just get paralyzed. Not knowing what to do. Because we're never really actually reaching quote unquote perfection. Okay. It's the ultimate progress blocker. Okay. So perfection is the ultimate progress blockers. So I don't want you to get stuck in that mindset. So here's the truth. Greatness. Doesn't come from being perfect. You can create greatness without ever. Being perfect. You know what, you know, how you do create greatness though. It's from showing up. Taking messy action. Learning as you go. So we can't put so much pressure on ourselves. Two. I try to be perfect all the time. Do you feel like this? Do you feel like, gosh, I am that person where I just feel like I'm always like trying to tweak it, make it a little bit better, make it a little bit better instead of just going, like, let me just put this out there and see what happens. Messy action. Right? This is taking messy action. Can we just put this out there? See what happens. There'll be able to tell from putting whatever this thing is that you're trying to create and be perfect. Just by putting it out there, you're going to get feedback. That's going to make it 10 times better. So the next time you do the thing. It's going to be great. perfect is not a goal. I don't ever try to make things perfect in my business. I've certainly not created. This million dollar company based on trying to be perfect. I've actually definitely made more mistakes. Than I have wins. But that's what, when you move forward without perfection, that's what you get to receive. You get to receive feedback, you get to receive more knowledge. You get to receive another chance. At creating or launching or whatever it is you're doing, doing it again. Because if you think, okay, this is perfect. And you go and it fails. Like where are you supposed to go from? Perfect. Right. There's nowhere else to go. It's not attainable. So there's always some kind of imperfection. And what I want you to know is imperfection is. Perfectly. Okay. All right. So one time I'm allowing you to use the word. Perfect. Imperfection. It's fine. Imperfection is perfectly okay. And as long as you're continuing to move forward and learning from things that may be were quote, unquote imperfect. This is going to allow you to create greatness. So don't ruin your greatness by trying to be perfect. If you're holding yourself back from making a big move. Building your mega business because you're not ready or it's not perfect. I want you to remind yourself of this one thing. Progress beats perfection. Every single time. There's a lot of, like, if you had a highlighter and you could highlight the words coming out of my mouth, I would want you to highlight these few things. Okay. Progress beats perfection every time. Because progress. Is actually how you build greatness. You put it out there. You take risks, you make moves. You take chances. This is what being an entrepreneur is all about. It's not about perfection. And if, if you're a perfectionist. You gotta let go of some of that control. Because that's not going to get you anywhere in your business. In fact, perfectionism. Blocks your progress, right? It's what I said in the beginning. Perfection is the ultimate progress blocker. And progress beats perfection every single time. So it's like a equals B and B equals C, then a equals C. Right. So what I want you to do instead. Today. I want you to just kind of notice you guys know. I love giving you my little actions today. I want you to notice where are you hindering your progress by wanting things to be quote unquote. Perfect. Instead of just hitting the publish button instead of just recording the content, instead of just not having the perfect background or not having the perfect hook or not having the perfect whatever, fill in the blank. Where are you not even doing the thing? We're publishing the content or sending the email. Or being bold or authentic or unique, or where are you not doing that? Because you don't quite think it's perfect yet. So this is your full permission in today's podcast. Pay attention to that. And then what I want you to do instead of aiming for perfection, I want you to aim for great. And it great. Is all depends on where you are in your journey. So great for me is going to be different than great for you. It's all incremental. So what I want you to look at your own business and go. I want to aim for greatness for me. And every day, show up aiming for greatness and not perfection. And watch how fricking far you can go. Okay, so promise me this on this beautiful day. You're letting go of pain. Perfect. You're understanding that progress. Is better than perfection. And you're understanding that you are not going to ruin your greatness by trying to be perfect. Okay. Having an amazing day. We'll talk tomorrow.