870: Beyond Perfection: 4 Gifts of Embracing Imperfection

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Hi Perfectionist Friend, I SEE you. I know you. Sometimes, I am you. You likely find yourself often feeling stuck. You’re tightly holding onto dreams, but unable to take steps toward them. You feel the weight of chronic decision fatigue as you try to determine what the next “best” or “right” step is. So you find yourself waiting. Waiting until the time and conditions are juuuust right. Yet, somehow that time never comes. I know you want more - but with less worry, nervousness, and anxiety. I see you worrying about what others might think if you flop. I see you anxiously stuffing your dreams into deep hiding places because you think you might fail. Perhaps you desire perfection so deeply you cannot make a decision or take any action because… FEAR. Perhaps you spend inordinate amounts of mental energy on a decision because you think making the wrong decision could ruin everything. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in motherhood and entrepreneurship is that perfect sucks. In fact, perfect stops me in my tracks and keeps me stuck for far too long. And, imperfect action is ridiculously liberating. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 870.
0:03.8	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going
0:07.5	to shamelessom.com and clicking on episode 870.
0:12.1	In this greatest hits episode of the Shameless Mom Academy, we're going to be talking about
0:15.8	beyond perfection, four gifts of embracing imperfection.
0:19.9	So let's dive in.
0:25.6	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, stories, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more powerful,
0:38.7	positive, and purposeful lives every damn day. So let's dive in.
0:47.5	All right. So diving into today, I'm totally laughing about today's topic because we're going
0:53.6	to be talking about the gifts of imperfect action. And I'll just let you know that right now, today's topic because we're going to be talking about the gifts of
0:54.7	imperfect action. And I'll just let you know that right now, today's episode,
0:58.8	total imperfect action. I had like 18 technology glitches trying to get my software up and running
1:04.4	today. And I'm not certain that it's even fully functioning right now. So I'm just recording
1:09.4	this hoping that it works. And this is me taking
1:12.5	imperfect action, recognizing that like, I don't have time to not do this right now because I have
1:18.2	to be on Facebook live in, let's see, 17 minutes. So I'm just told myself, I'm going to record and hope
1:26.2	that it works. And if it doesn't, I'll
1:27.6	re-record later, but I'm not going to miss out on this opportunity to knock something off the
1:32.6	list, get it done, cross it off. And I'm just going to cross my fingers that it works. Because
1:36.7	here's the thing. If it doesn't, I can figure it out because I am resourceful and I'm resilient, and so I can redo it if I have to, right? So this is me taking imperfect action, even just recording this today.
1:46.7	And that's what we're going to be talking about today, the gifts of imperfect action.
1:50.0	I think that many people listening to this show identify themselves as I do as a type A, control freak,
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