This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today, we'll be talking about perfectionism.

Bernice is the proprietor of green growing things plant stores, and she decided that she wanted to launch a course for her customers on the care and feeding of Audrey Too's The Carnivorous Plants. She put together an outline and subscribed to an online

webinar service, and she began to design. For each topic, she recorded a video. Halfway through

the course, however, she realized that the video made her look, well, blue. So she took a course on video production,

and she realized her white balance was off.

So she decided to re-record the videos, all of them.

And then, of course, she decided that the checkout process

for the webinar subscription was awkward,

and surely she should streamline that.

And so that means getting a payment processor

that integrates with her webinar service.

And then the website, you know, it's really not a track of enough.

By the time she got everything up and running, technology had advanced, and she realized that

a four by three video aspect ratio was so, so retro, and she should reboot the video in a

16 by 9 aspect ratio. Five years later, she's still

working on getting the project perfect. No one but her has seen a moment of the video.

You'll never reach the perfect output, and Bernice is shooting for perfection of the finished

product. Unfortunately, perfection of the output is a moving target,

and as you learn more and more about what it is that you're creating, you can simply raise your

standards. Back before vacuum cleaners, the perfectly clean floors basically meant floors

that you could eat off of and only get one or two mouthfuls of dirt. But once vacuum cleaners

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