In my primary school I had an awful teacher that taught me everything I had to produce or do in the class room had to be perfect. My handwriting needed to be perfect, my homework needed to be perfect and as the old saying goes practice makes perfect. And she drilled that into us.

And on that note my social, or should I say mental engineering I have spent the last two weeks perfecting my product as I am putting it together and building the member’s area where my members will be accessing the product trying to make it perfect.

Then I started to ask myself is it really necessary, to get everything perfect?

Something I have realized after wasting about 1 and a half weeks of getting my website “perfect” is that the desire to be perfect traps us and burdens and creates unnecessary stress. And that perfection doesn’t really exist. We can only improve on our best. Practice makes improvements!!! Not perfection.

I believe so many of us waste so much time waiting for the perfect time to do somethings, like the perfect time to start a business or wait for the perfect time to lose weight or the perfect time to learn a new skill.

It doesn’t exist, the perfect time is today, don’t waste time like I did, once it’s done, move on to the next task.

Now, striving for your best work isn’t a bad thing, but when you start to “over – focus” on the unimportant things, like all the titles need to be in CAPS and the sub – heading need to be in bold etc. That’s when it becomes counter – productive, more time spent on an activity very rarely equals higher quality, so not being a perfectionist can actually improve the task at hand.

I’m so relieved to have this stress off my shoulders, let me know your thoughts on perfectionism in the comments below.

Until Next Time. . . .

P.S. You might find this blog post not as perfect as it should be for a reason, the two things I want you to take away from this post is that you do not have to be perfect, and don’t wait for the perfect moment, just do it!!! 🙂