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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Done is Better Than Perfect | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Are you perfect? Without any flaws or deficiencies? Utterly impossible to improve upon? Of course not. So why do you hold yourself to a ridiculous standard of perfection before shooting that video, mailing that flier, or picking up the phone to make your calls? It’s time to stop striving for unattainable perfection and start getting things DONE!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Done is better than perfect.

0:03.8

Done is better than perfect.

0:05.6

Done is better than perfect.

0:07.7

So often I talk to people about all their ideas

0:10.7

and these things they wanna do,

0:11.9

and someday when I finally,

0:13.5

but until it's perfect,

0:15.4

I can't put it out in the marketplace.

0:17.1

Until the video is perfect,

0:18.3

till I look perfect,

0:19.2

till everything is perfect,

0:20.2

till the stars and the moon and everything aligns

0:22.9

and everything is perfect,

0:24.5

then I'll make my phone calls,

0:26.1

then I'll ask her out,

0:27.4

then I'll do the right thing,

0:28.6

then I'll finally say I'm sorry.

0:30.4

Done, done is so much better than perfect.

0:34.2

I look at my life and I say,

0:35.4

what are the open loops,

0:36.8

the things that are almost like this giant drag on me,

0:40.1

kind of like if I had a huge umbrella

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