Perfectionism doesn’t work, unfortunately
Being a perfectionist is one of the worst ways of losing your productivity. Doing the task or project is way more important than thinking about doing them.
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I’ve been gone six months because of perfectionism. I spent so long trying to get everything right before starting that I just kept putting it off. Doing the task is much better than doing it perfectly. So I’m back, I love making videos, and I’ll be doing it every day.
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It’s been six months almost at a day since I made my last video. And partly is because I’m a perfectionist. Now, I know that’s not a good thing. I don’t think being a perfectionist is actually good for productivity because you’re trying to get everything right before you start anything. Having a goal and having a task and doing that project perfectly is different to being a perfectionist.
Now, if you’re a perfectionist, things come. kind of get put off. This past year I’ve been busy personally, so I haven’t really been working so much. And in the past six months, I’ve been dealing with my car and rebuilding it and making sure it’s ready to be on the road. And it’s been really difficult for me to get back into the saddle to actually make these videos. And I’ve been thinking about doing it differently. I’ve been thinking about making it a vlog style and nothing seemed to work because of that perfectionism within me, if that’s such a word. So I didn’t kind of get started. I kind of put it off from one day to the next and I didn’t do it.
But I kind of woke up one day literally thinking, as I said, doing the task is much better than doing it perfectly. If you think about all the videos, I’ve made. I don’t produce them. I don’t overproduce them. I don’t, all the ’erms’ and ‘aars’ are actually in there. If I make a mistake, they’re left in there. And I wanted to change that. And that, I think, was the issue with me trying to figure out how to do it rather than getting off my arse and actually doing it.
I love making videos. I love talking a lot. And many of you know that I talk a lot and talk too much maybe and making videos is something that I love doing I can do this every day and in fact I will be doing it every day um but again when you’re when you stop something and then you try to get that run up to do it that run up the the perfectionist in me kind of took over and try to make everything correct um before I actually put the camera on started recording.
So having that task and being productive is way more beneficial than thinking that you’re going to get it right first time. If you go back, look at my videos, there were, I should take them off the air, but they’re so bad. But you learn from it. And when you learn from it, it’s like getting on the bike. It’s like getting back on the saddle, getting on a bike and riding again. You’ll never forget how to ride a bike. And for me it’s the same with making videos you never forget how to make videos so yeah get on with what you need to do and stop thinking about what other people are going to be thinking.
Anyway if you got this video via email reply to that email let me know what you think it’d be great to get some feedback your feedback um if you’re watching this on a website somewhere there’ll be a link somewhere to to have a chat um it’d be good to know how you you deal with it as well.
Anyway, till next time tomorrow, I’ll see you then. Ciao.