Get Past Procrastination&Perfectionism

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How to get past procrastination and perfectionism.
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Every day, millions of brilliant projects fail to deliver value — not because of bad planning or lack of skill, but because they never got off the ground. Two mental habits account for this loss: perfectionism and procrastination. These habits always travel together, and, at some point, everyone comes under their paralyzing influence. For all their power, though, they can be eliminated with an incredibly simple solution called The 80% Approach™.
Perfectionism and procrastination defined.
Perfectionism is an obsession with the ideal. Procrastination is a refusal to take action because an “ideal result” isn’t guaranteed. The words and concepts might sound familiar, yet we seldom approach these terribly limiting mental blocks as if we could do something about them.
Perfectionism.
Isn’t perfectionism a good thing? Not really, because perfectionists aren’t willing to settle for anything less than the ideal, and since ideals aren’t constrained by reality, perfectionists get stuck in the clouds. Nothing measures up, and rather than providing vision or hope, this obsession leads to a perpetual dissatisfaction. Paralysis sets in, and with it comes procrastination.
Procrastination.
Often when we accuse ourselves or others of procrastinating, what we really mean is “being lazy.” You can see the guilt this idea imposes, which does nothing to solve the problem and everything to compound it.
Procrastination isn’t actually about laziness at all. It’s about fear: fear that our actions might not turn out perfectly. And so the perfectionism-procrastination circle closes on itself.
80% the way out.
You need light to drive a car, but you wouldn’t drive by looking into the sun. Likewise, approaching a project with a 100% focus is a sure way to blind yourself.
Chances are you’ll never evaluate your first results as 100%. What’s more, you’ll learn things on the way to your first results that open up possibilities and refinements you couldn’t have seen when you started out. So even if you aim for 100%, you’re never going to get it. This can make you dissatisfied and disillusioned — or you can use it to your advantage. We call this The 80% Approach.
80% is more than mediocre.
Aiming for 80% isn’t settling for mediocrity. Here are three reasons why:
1. 80% is better than nothing. Most projects are so frozen by obsessive notions about the ideal that they never happen at all. In many cases, achieving 80% of your ideal on the first try is enough. When you get the first 80% out there, most people will tend to focus on what you did achieve, not on how it fell short of an ideal that only you held in your head. You may be surprised to find that they get tremendous value out of your 80%, and that their feedback gives you ideas for improvements you couldn’t have anticipated on your own.
2. You can have more than one 80%. After reaching the first 80%, you can go back and do the next 80%, and the next, and the next. Or, even better, let other people do the next 80%. People who have a fresh perspective and skills that complement your own can often take a result to the next level much more easily. Once you’ve reached the first 80%, going 80% of the remaining way takes you to 96% of the ideal!
3. There’s no such thing as 100%. Perfection is just a mental construct — and a debilitating one. Continuous progress is a healthier and more workable goal. Many projects can be successfully completed with an 80% result, and quite often, all the extra work won’t make any visible difference. Holding on to projects for too long stops others from being able to move forward with their part, and also restricts their ability to contribute. When you shift your focus to 80%, teamwork will soar.



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