Those of you that have done my Pilates Detox Club or know me well, realise that I’m passionate about ‘mindset’, I feel it has an effect on ever part of our lives, not always in a positive way.
I’m in the process of putting lots of new systems in place to take my business to where I want it to be. This has being going on for over a year now and will continue to be an ongoing process.
I’ve had a plan for a new product for some time now, but, it NEVER gets anywhere nearer to completion. I’ve been asking myself why over and over again and I think it boils down to one very simple thing, I don’t think the product is ever good enough yet. Now, I’m not saying that so everyone emails and sends me kind words telling me how good I am and that I should believe in myself more etc etc., I’m telling you this because I think it will resonate with loads of you.
The difficulty is I can be a bit of a perfectionist, and as I work on my product, I am acutely aware that there is ALWAYS someone who knows more than me, who has more experience than me, who has more paper qualifications than me, who is better at the technology side of things than me ( grrrr – this one really frustrates me! ), who writes better than me, explains things clearer than me and so the list goes on……..
When I started this process, I took loads of courses to help fill my knowledge gaps, learn’t soooo much new stuff – which is great! But, and it’s a big but….I’m still in the same place for all the above reasons!
After, spending a morning drinking coffee with a colleague – two not so normal things for me to do, as A) I don’t normally drink coffee and B) I don’t usually ‘waste’ my time when I have lots of things to do………..there I go again, notice I said ‘waste’, when actually that was not the case at all….mmm just feelings of guilt as I was not producing the work I needed to do – but hey, that’s another email!
He simply said “Perfection doesn’t exist, except in our minds – don’t use that excuse for stopping you achieving, perfection leads to procrastination”
So, next time you’re feeling that you’re not good enough, realise its just an excuse for not actually DOING something, be the best version of you that you can be – that’s all any of us can ever do 🙂