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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to discuss how our need to be perfect, can be causing us a lot of harm. Now I have a lot of projects that I’m working on, and I’m getting to them as I can. One of the projects that I’m working on daily is this podcast. I realize an episode every Monday through Friday, and it takes a while to write the episode, record it, edit the podcast, and get it out to the people. Plus I’m in an MBA program, I’m working on two books, a movie script, and I have my clients to focus on. So I don’t have the time necessary to spend a lot of time on this podcast. I just write out the podcast episode in one take, and then I record the episode.
And I’ve been doing this for 380 episodes and I feel like I’m a lot better at doing the podcast than how I started. That’s because I’ve been putting the reps in and just focusing on getting the episode out there. I haven’t listened to an episode from my early days, but I’m sure I would cringe at hearing it because I know it would not be up to my standards as a person. But that is who I was a year ago. I didn’t have the same knowledge as I do today.
And the way I got better was not focusing on perfection but completion to the best of my ability. This process allowed me to grow as a person. I should be changing my standards every time I do something, but I should have standards that are outside of my reach. This is going to cause me to procrastinate, and then my message won’t be sent out to the world and you wouldn’t be getting these episodes on a daily basis, which then means you’re not getting these amazing lessons.
And we shouldn’t expect perfection when we’re first starting out, we should just put something out there, get feedback, improve our process, and then try again with the modifications. This is what life is about, experimenting, and making improvements. Now there are somethings we should spend our time on, but these are things that should be planned out so that we eventually finish our project and it doesn’t just collect dust. I feel this is what’s happening with my movie script, but I’ve been focusing on other things. I was sick a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t record or write and podcast episodes, or do anything else for my business, so now I’m playing catch-up. I should be good by tomorrow to be able to focus on some other things. But I also started a new semester of my MBA and that’s eating up into my time as well.
So I don’t have the time for perfection, just the best of my abilities. I need to give energy. If I give enough energy, then that can make up for a lot of stuff. Confidence kills. If I don’t give energy, then people are not going to like my stuff. I’m not a very outgoing person, but I feel like I’m giving energy in my own way and I’m giving 100 percent of the effort I can. This is how we should approach life, and do all that we can because that’s all we can do, we just have to make sure we’re doing all that we can. Do this, and you’re going to do a lot of amazing things.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, perfection is the enemy of completion. Nothing is going to be perfect, but we can be perfect with our efforts. We don’t have all the time in the world and we have to make choices on what we do with our time. We can’t take another hour, and we don’t want to spend too much time on things like ensuring that the perfect color is chosen. It’s best to do split testing where one color is used for 50 percent of the audience and 50 percent of the audience is seeing another color. This way you can see what is converting more. Netflix doesn’t spend all the time in the world on choosing the perfect cover art to show you, it will create a couple of different ones, and see what is working the best. Sometimes you do need to spend extra time polishing things up, but make sure it’s worth it. But overall, just make sure you’re giving your full effort in the time allowed, and if you do this, then things should turn out well. If not, then try something else.
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