Monday Morning Musing: Excellence vs. Perfection

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I have discussions all the time with clients, friends and eCourse participants around the topic of excellence vs. perfection. In fact, we were discussing it this weekend in my online eCourse, Organize. Often, we allow our quest for perfection to cause us to not take action at all. if it's not going to be perfect, it's not worth doing. The thing is, some things actually are worth doing and we need to be OK with achieving something less than perfection for the sake of getting it done. Aspire to excellence, not perfection.

In the things you do, or need to do, or aspire to do someday, what does it mean to be perfect and what does it mean to be excellent? Because doing nothing just so that you don't have to find out that you're not perfect is not a great choice. In this article from the New York Times, the author found that "in the end, unless you negotiate peace with the demon of perfectionism, you’re left with the ruins of a dream and a painful testament to personal shortcomings." The important thing was not that the author's project was perfect. The important things was that he finished.

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How to you start to take action toward excellence instead of letting a quest for perfection hold you back? Let's talk about it and remove that barrier in a session of The Great Barrier Relief or any other of my one-on-one coaching options, available by telephone, email or a combination of both.

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