Episode 305: Perfect VS Done: Do Your Best Work or Just Ship It? (FS305)

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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How do we balance our dreams of perfection with getting things done? Should our business be more focussed on shipping or shaping? When do we know that something is ready to go out into the world?

These are the types of questions that all entrepreneurs, whether service or product based, have to face pretty regularly. Learning how to manage this tension is huge part of finding a successful path and continual sensitivity to these options can put you and your work in great stead.

In this episode, we get right into the issue, weighing the benefits of getting things done and working on them meticulously. In the end, there is always going to be a sweet spot between how much you can possibly do and the point you need to let go.

We also talk about self doubt, paring down your vision, putting constraints of perfectionism and why it is not a bad idea to err on the side of shipping in the beginning.

For this and whole lot more, join us today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Ways to think about the differences between perfect and done. [0:03:44.5]
• The difficulty of embodying both of these ideas. [0:08:20.2]
• Swinging between practicality, practice and perfection. [0:10:15.6]
• Smashing pedestals and giving yourself permission to succeed. [0:16:54.4]
• Witnessing and acknowledging how you feel about your projects. [0:20:50.8]
• What perfectionism actually means in relation to your psyche. [0:25:06.4]
• Starting to ship somewhere and the space there is for imperfection. [0:32:38.1]
• Performance, entrepreneurship and streamlining your shipping. [0:40:01.5]
• Perspective and clinically observing yourself and your business. [0:45:18.3]
• Solving a problem and letting your perfectionism serve you. [0:53:02.4]
• Ongoing lesson and the journey that we are on. [0:57:04.2]
• Living to fight another day in this business! [1:01:03.2]
• And much more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:07.0	What's up everybody? I am Igor Philly Inn for my good friends.
0:13.0	We don't have a regular show today. We have something way better. I'm turning in the strong band.
0:20.0	I'm sorry everybody. A turn turning into strong bad. I'm sorry everybody.
0:21.9	I'm turning to strong bad. Oh, no. What's up entrepreneurs out there? You're trying to make
0:27.8	business? I can't do it anymore. I can do this all day, but I don't think you'd listen to it all day.
0:33.8	What's up, everyone? Welcome to the Fizzle show. My name is Chase Reeves. I've got on the show with me,
0:39.5	Corbett Barr and Aden Fishbein, and we are going to talk with you today about something that is
0:44.3	essential for your entrepreneurial journey. You know, you're trying to build a business, right?
0:50.8	You want to create some independent success some independent wealth some
0:55.7	some side income wherever your vision is right there's just like a little thing on the side or
1:00.6	whether it's like a really big thing i want to employ a bunch of people and to change the world
1:05.5	whatever takes all kinds you're going to have to go through through the, what I keep hearing again and again in,
1:14.6	like, Buddhisty circles, like the gateless gate. You're going to have to go through the gateless
1:19.5	gate of, of like deciding what you're going to do, how you're going to do it, dealing with your
1:26.3	own expectations of yourself,
1:28.8	processing the massive amounts of disappointment that may come your way every day as you let
1:35.5	yourself down in pursuit of this dream. And you can forget about it. You can go like,
1:40.3	oh, I'm terrible at this. I'm worthless at this and you can just give up.
1:44.8	But then you're just like, what's that going to change in your life?
1:47.5	Like, you're just giving a safe spot, right? Just may, like, maybe more angry.
1:51.9	This is more like painted into a corner. Right. So for, for, for a lot of us out of here
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