Don’t Wait For Perfection

June 11th 2010

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Another trend that I’ve been noticing lately is that many people are waiting for things to be perfect before pushing forward. This might be waiting for the perfectly designed website or fine tuning an article until it is perfect in the author’s opinion. You need to STOP IT!!!

Waiting to be perfect is getting in your way and that is what we talk about on today’s episode of Managing the Gray.

Links to things mentioned on the show today:

So, now that you know it is ok not to wait for perfection what are you going to do? Don’t tell me about it until AFTER you’ve done it! Talking about doing stuff is not the same as doing it.

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  • http://www.davemadethat.com Dave Delaney

    Great episode CC!

  • http://www.palaisprofessionalorganizer.com Jennifer Palais

    Thank you for the reminder CC… No such thing as perfection. Ship and move on. Love these podcasts…

  • http://www.davidlamorte.com Dave LaMorte

    This episode really spoke to me as an artist. The hardest decision an artist has to make is when to decide something is done. I’m going to try to take your advice C.C., because I have more drawings that were never finished because I tried to make them perfect and they were never finished. http://blog.davidlamorte.com/post/314641862/work-in-progress-new-tools-work-in-progress

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