So I’m on my way to Scotland for the next few days. So these emails might be early or late. All depends on the signal…
…cause out around this neck of the woods (While travelling on the train) I’d be lucky if I get anything that remotely resembles dial up speeds from the 90s.
Anyways.
Now I’ve noticed a lot of us creative types tend to agonise and go for perfect.
The perfect time to create.
The perfect time to post.
The perfect time to do anything that’ll move the needle forward.
We want the perfect audience, the perfect clients all wrapped up in our perfect little products that we can inject into their perfect little worlds…
But what we keep forgetting that nothing is perfect and that’s why they come to us. That’s why they’re attracted to us in the first place.
Cause we’re able to share what they wish they could share or do the work that we do.
They live through us and hopefully are inspired by us to follow their dreams too.
Yet here we are. Agonising. Waiting for everything to be perfect.
I know for years I got stuck on this whole perfection trap.
And I’ll tell you what…
It’s not easy to get over it. You must push. You’ll need to ignore the perfect lives of everyone else whose always talking about it online.
(Secretly we all know that things are not perfect)
But we’ve been stuck in a world of delusion that’s been fed to us by the lies of the perfect world shown to us on the internet.
I remember following Mel Robbins when she launched her 5 second rule.
The TL;DR version of it is: If you need to do something. No matter what it is. Whether you’re sitting down to write, draw, paint or gonna rush into a wedding venue to call it off and profess your undying love the bridge/groom or both…
You have exactly 5 seconds to make the decision to do it. To start. To crack on…
You count down mentally from 5 to 1 and go.
Anything past that and the brain automatically stops you from taking action.
I’ve adopted this practice for years now and even though I sometimes slip up and get kicked in the face by the brain. 9 out of 10 times it works.
Grab her book. Give it a read and stop waiting for perfect.
Done is easy and once it’s out into the world. We can always (If we have to. Go back and make it perfect)
Stephen Walker.