Does this happen to you?
As I try to keep providing quality marketing information to healing professionals, I often get stalled by my Achilles heel – trying to be perfect.
Do you struggle with it too? Here is a conversation that goes on in my head sometimes:
“There just isn’t enough time to do it ‘right.’” Or, “It just isn’t perfect yet.” Or, “I can do it better than this.”
If you struggle with this, you know what I am talking about. It is the place where it feels too hard to move forward and yet you might like a failure if you don’t. You just feel stuck.
Well, in May I decided to confront this perfectionism/procrastination cycle once and for all. In 2007 I decided to write a book and “just finish it” and let it be – not perfect – but good enough. But I wondered, can I really do it?
Here is the mantra that helped me finish the book…
My coach said to me “Focus on completion – not perfection” and that was the motto that moved me through the process. I will post more later of my book writing/overcoming procrastination story in case you might be interested.
But if you struggle with that “I’ll think about it tomorrow because I am too tired to make it perfect today” thinking then I hope you can take a page out of my book (hee hee) and “Focus on completion not perfection” – whether it is in your marketing efforts or somewhere in the rest of your life.
And yes, the book was completed!
This book certainly is not perfect – but it is completed.
You can check it out at:
http://www.BeAWealthyTherapist.com/book/
As always, I wish you great success!
