The Abundant Practitioner Podcast By Dr Tilean

Ep 65: The Power of Imperfection: Unlocking Growth in Your Business

• Dr Tilean • Season 1 • Episode 65

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What if perfectionism isn’t pushing you forward but actually holding you back?

In this episode, Dr. Tilean pulls back the curtain on a game-changing truth—waiting for the “perfect” moment is costing you growth, money, and impact.

Inside her Business Academy, she’s seen it time and time again: the ones who embrace the messy middle are the ones who scale fastest. So, how do YOU move past fear, doubt, and those nagging "what-ifs"?

If you've ever felt stuck in "getting ready to get ready" mode... THIS is the episode you can’t afford to miss. 

It will cover:

  • Why breaking free from your comfort zone is the key to unlocking your next-level business
  • How momentum works like an airplane takeoff—(spoiler: it’s NOT about waiting for the perfect runway)
  •  The sneaky way your environment is shaping your success (without you even realising it.)

Hit play now and step into the power of imperfect action.

Thank you for joining me today on The Abundant Practitioner Podcast. I’m so glad you carved out this time for yourself because you 100% deserve soul-nourishing and soul-aligned success!

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to our podcast designed for psychologists, therapists and counsellors who want to take their business online and live a soul nourished and profitable life without compromise. If you want to know the secrets used by practitioners just like you to navigate the global e-learning market successfully, then you're in the right place. I'm Dr Talene, chartered Psychologist, business Mentor and your host, and welcome to the Abundant Practitioner Podcast Today. What I'm covering is embracing imperfection right, and using that as your superpower okay, and a stepping stone as you move forward in 2025, right. So I'm Dr Talene and, like I mentioned, I'm a psychologist by background and a business coach for practitioners, coaches and consultants all around the world.

Speaker 1:

All right, I've been in the online world for coming up to 10 years now and I'm here to help you really step forward and serve your mission, your God-given mission, your purpose-given mission, your purpose-driven mission that you are on have been on. I know many people that come around me and come across me have been on their mission for years, sometimes decades right. Moving it forward, whether that is practical in action or whether that's notes in your journals right. But you're here because you're like I need to take it up to the next level. I need to step out there. I need to shine. I need to put behind me any imperfections or being in this place of like what I call. I like to turn the procrastinate branding where I'm here, like figuring out my colors and my logos and changing the text on my website or what my program is going to be, and really just step out in the world and serve. Okay, and I think this is really, really important. I want to start with that, because it's so important to ensure that you are stepping out in the world and serving, regardless of where you are on your business journey. This is something I cover as moment somebody enters our business academy, right, so I run a year long business academy and wherever anyone enters whether they've been in business doing their business for 10 years, five years, one year, or whether they'd like to leave I'm here and I'm new.

Speaker 1:

You are going to step out and be encouraged to step out straight away. And we see instant, right, that ability to put yourself around, that energy of being stretched and feeling a little bit uncomfortable, right, I'm like, really what? You sure I don't need to spend like 90 days like getting ready to get ready to get ready and I'm like, no, we're going to step out. We're going to step out with imperfection. We're going to step out with fear. We're going to step out, even in that space of feeling like I'm not sure on who I'm talking to or where I'm talking or whatever, because we want to get over that and be in the business elements and tasks that you need to be doing each day to move forward your business.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and so it's really, really important. And that's where we're able to see, like people in the academy celebrating just a couple of weeks in some of them just a week in and being like, wow, I've already three X to what I did last month Right, I'm ready X'd what I did last month right, I've already 3X'd what I did last month right. Or celebrating that they've now signed up 20-odd clients right. It feels to them like magic. They've come into this magical room. I'm not doing no, right, they're doing the work. They're showing up up, okay, they're just in a container that holds them and supports them to really just step out and form this.

Speaker 1:

And that's what I really want for you all here today, listening, right, I want you to be able to recognize that whatever you have come to believe is just a belief that you have chosen to own as your perspective right now, and you get to change it. If you are there saying I'm not ready, that's the belief that you're holding on to, and you can change that to. I'm ready, right, you know. And so it's really a really taking every thought captive and being like is this true? And if it's true, am I going to do it anyway? Is this true? And if it's true, am I going to do it anyway, or am I going to sit back and let it stop me? Right? Is it true that I feel tired? Maybe it is true that you feel tired, but are you going to sit back and stop it from doing what you need to do, right? Is it true that your schedule is super full? Maybe it is true, right? What changes and shifts could you make to alter that perspective of your truth?

Speaker 1:

And so, when we are in a space where we are like the timing is not perfect for me to execute my mission, is not perfect for me to execute my mission, right? Is that about mission or is that about you? Is that about the people? Is that about you? Is that about what God wants you to do, or is that about you, right? And so it's really coming back into mission in terms of there really is never a perfect time for you to step up, step out, be bold and move forward right. Life is always going to be life in some way, shape or form, and so how do we embrace that? Actually, the time is the time, is the time right, and there doesn't need to be a gap unless we choose there to be right. And so it's like, if I'm on mission, how do I step out and be there for the people immediately? Yeah, how do I step out in here and have my ears to the ground and know what's going on in the world of that I'm going to provide help to Right.

Speaker 1:

And so it's making these actions and really ensuring that the actions that you're taking each day are aligning with the vision you want to create. There are so many people out there like I want to bring my business from five figures a year to five figures a month. I want to go to seven figures, eight figures, wherever they want to go next Right and in terms of that level of impact, of where they want to bring this vision to. But when we look at the actions that they're taking each day, does it align with that vision of what they want to receive, the impact that they want to have. And so it's about really being honest with ourselves and being like is my focus in the right place? Right Does how I think about things need to change, how the way I'm addressing things need to change Right. If we change the things we see, the things we see change Right. So you've got to really look at like, what is the perspective? What is that lens that I have on?

Speaker 1:

You know someone saying earlier about being able to put themselves in a position, even uncomfortably, of like, wow, like financially, should I, should I be in that room? Should I, should I have any business doing, doing a mentorship when, when the business may not have even had made anything yet, and the only way you can bring yourself through a hoop like that is to see what you can see here and not what you see here right, See what you see in your heart, in your soul, in your God-given vision when you stay in that space, and not what you see with the eyes. Right, you know really like, are you activating faith? And so it's really really important to recognize like and pause and lean in and recognize that when we're leaping, it's not like right, I'm like, yeah, skip it into the next right. It's a like, I'm doing it right. You know, and that is what a stretch happens, and all of you would have experienced that in some way, shape or form, in your life before. I really believe, if you're in this room, in some way, shape or form you have leaped before in some element of your life Right, leaped in, leaped out of challenges. Right, leaped in all different ways. And so, remembering that side of you, that part of you that has the capabilities of leaping out and forward, and then maybe in that leap it feels scary but it unravels into what it needs to be yeah, so what you know?

Speaker 1:

The question I'd love to invite to you all, as you reflect even beyond this right, is like is there anything I'm postponing because I'm waiting for the perfect condition? Right, is there anything I'm not doing because I'm waiting for the perfect condition? How can I act now? What is the outcome that I want now? Right, come that I want now? Right, assessing and auditing your actions that you are taking each day and whether they are lining up with the vision that you have. Are the actions you're taking each day lining up with the vision that you have Are the actions you're taking each day temporary actions, because you don't feel quite ready for the actions that you need to take to go with the vision that you have? Right, making sure that everything is going in a straight line in terms of the direction you're heading. Yeah, and so this becomes about your life systems, about your business systems.

Speaker 1:

How do you embrace imperfection and move forward? Is you put in place things in your day to say I'm going to execute and be visible each and every day with my vision, with my mission? Right, maybe it's an hour a day, maybe it's half an hour a day, maybe it's an hour a week, right, I don't know what your life is like or what's happening, but if it's not on the schedule, we can't expect things to show up. And so how are you activating things in your business? How are you activating the life systems that you have so that you have the energy to show up? Right, how are you fueling yourself so that you're able to courageously move when there's imperfections, imperfections, right, you know, and it really is about recognizing that actually, it's not about waiting for perfect aligned time, right, and perfect aligned space to be able to operate, because if we would be waiting for that. We'll be waiting a long time. Or we'll be starting and we'll be stopping, and then we'll be starting, and then we'll be stopping and we'll be stopping, and then we'll be starting, and then we'll be stopping, and then we'll be starting, and then we'll be stopping. And you know, every time you go to start, how much energy that takes to start, and so you have to do it again and get yourself ready and stop, and then you stop Because everything's not right, everything's not aligned, I'm not perfectly healed, I'm not perfectly energized. The children creating consistent momentum and consistency with your mission, with your vision, and that's what I really want to encourage. You is like, sometimes you might want to slow down, but you don't necessarily need to halt to the stop, yeah, and pause and put it to the side and then pick it back up. Right, that actually it's easier to just slow it down and then speed it up. Right, maybe you need to go.

Speaker 1:

You know, I know in America there's a lot of automatic driving and even now in the UK, right, we're going more to automatic, yeah, but if we think about a manual car, gear one, gear two, gear three, gear four, gear five right, that's how I learned to drive. Right, you go up the gears and to start, you've got to get to the biting point. Right, you've got to. Is the car on the biting point to get off? Right, you've got to bring it to biting point. Right, you've got to. Right. Am I ready to go? Right, that's the start motion. But then, when you're in gear one, gear two, gear three, back to gear two, back to gear three, right, but once we put that brake on, we now got to find the biting point again. Right, we now got to find the Biden point again. Right, we've now got to find the right. Am I ready?

Speaker 1:

All of that energy? You know the plane takes the most energy to get off the ground. Right, you think about going on a plane and it's like, right, all of that energy, and then we're cruising out your trode. Right, all of that energy, and then we're cruising out your trode. Ok, so thinking about your life in that way, in terms of, like you, taking the plane off and then bringing it back down, starting the car, stopping the car, starting the car, stopping the car what is that doing for you? What is that doing for your mission, right, what is that doing for your brand? Right, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So really really thinking about these things of as you think about 2025, it doesn't matter if you haven't done your vision board yet, it doesn't matter if you haven't perfectly formulated your goals and your targets and your this and your that. Step out and do the work, right. I'm going to be transparent. I was saying it in the academy this week. I haven't done my 2025 plan as I normally do. I'm normally the one right at the start, right, but I've stepped out and I've served regardless, yeah. And so it's like how are you embracing the imperfections or the shifts that life is bringing where you can step out regardless, maybe at a different speed, but you're stepping out and you're not halting?

Speaker 1:

Okay, really, really important, because you know what you can do is, when you build momentum, there's such thing called cruise control, right, you're like you could take your foot off. You could just let it roll and roll and roll and carry you until you're ready again, right. So I'm not also implying that it's about like hustle, hustle, grind, grind, hustle, hustle 365 days of the year, right, but I am in really inviting you to really think am am I doing this start-stop motion with my business and life and am I okay with that, because I'm not here to judge, right, it's just about bringing that awareness of like am I okay with that? And if you're not okay with that, you get to choose to change that. And if you are okay with that, you get to choose to change that. And if you are okay with that, that's fine, right, that's your acceptance of what you want. But it's about really understanding that and inviting that in.

Speaker 1:

You know, really thinking about, like, how am I looking after the environment up here in my head? Right, what am I feeding my mental environment? How am I ensuring that I am thinking right? Right, putting, like, the right things out there. What am I speaking? So many people I've caught talking and saying I'm trying this, right, I'm finding this hard and let's empower ourselves. Right, what about I'm learning? I'm growing? Right, how do we utilize our words differently to ensure that they're aligned with what we actually want to see, right? So, really thinking about those things of what are you feeding in here and what's coming out of here? Right, what is feeding into your mind and what's coming out of your mouth?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, now really looking at that, what about the environment of the rooms you are in? You don't have to stay in a room that is not serving you, even if you thought you were supposed to stay in that room. If it's not serving you, you get to choose to get out, to stay in that room, if it's not serving you, you get to choose to get out. Yeah, and so, really recognizing what is the environment of the people that I'm around, of the rooms that I'm in. Are they serving me? Are they helping me? Are they supporting me? Right? Is it crabs in a bucket? Right, you have that terminology of, like, pulling each other we're're all trying to get out, right? Or is it supportive and uplifting? Yeah, that environment. And what about your physical environment?

Speaker 1:

You know, we've had various wins. I mentioned some of the wins in the academy in terms of client wins, right, revenue wins in the academy. But we've had also some amazing wins of, like I cleared my desk, I sorted my desktop, right, I sorted my surroundings so I can show up better for me, for my mission, for my vision, so I can think better. How are you supposed to think, lele, when everything's just all chaotic around you, right? So, really thinking about your environments as well, in terms of how do I not make them perfect? Right, but how do I just organize myself and support myself to move forward, even in this space which might feel less than small, right, not right?

Speaker 1:

Confusion, chaos. How can we just set ourselves up for a bit more success? Yeah, so, really addressing that and that's what I wanted to bring to you today as a point of thinking through right, so you get to expand, shine your light and move forward with momentum, all right, and create abundance in your life. And abundance I'm not just talking financial abundance, I'm talking about abundance with time, with energy, with opportunity. Right, and that comes by really just embracing what you have and moving forward anyway, right, but how do we make these 1% improvements here, here, here and here, so we can just really elevate and shift forward? Okay, that's me for today.