This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

They say you teach what you most need to learn.

Well, today I'm here to teach about overcoming perfectionism.

Sometimes extreme attention to perfecting every single detail simply gets in the way.

And by golly, I'll show you how to overcome it

if I have to dot every eye and cross every T myself with a .4mmy turquoise point G-Texe pen.

Perfection is caused by immortality. If you're a perfectionist, it's only because

some part of your brain believes that you'll live forever. After spending 17 hours painstakingly adjusting the spacing between the fonts on our business card,

some part of my brain thought, wow, this perfectionism stuff really takes time.

Fortunately, I'll live forever.

Wait, what? Back up there.

What's this thing about living forever?

My brain was confused, and yours might be too.

I created a program called Get It Done Groups, which is an accountability program to help self-employed

people build new habits and finish products that they've been working on forever, stuff like that.

And originally, it was going to take months to get this thing started. I mean, I was going to make

videos and have handouts and all that stuff was going to be ready for the this thing started. I mean, I was going to make videos and have handouts

and all that stuff was going to be ready for the programs rollout.

I was eagerly telling my friend David about it

when he looked at me sternly in the eye and said,

Get it done now.

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