Strive for Progress Not Perfection | Mindset Monday
The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience
Tom Ferry
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🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody's got a goal, |
| 0:01.2 | everybody's got a dream, maybe it's not written down, |
| 0:03.4 | maybe it is written down, maybe there's a plan, |
| 0:05.2 | maybe there isn't. |
| 0:06.0 | The challenge is, why do most people not execute on it? |
| 0:09.3 | Why do most people say, I really want to do this, man? |
| 0:12.0 | It would be unbelievable if we solve this |
| 0:14.0 | problem and yet they don't. I am convinced that the vast majority of people are |
| 0:19.0 | so focused on perfection that they never even get started. |
| 0:24.0 | You know, I mean, if the timing isn't right, |
| 0:25.8 | if the situation isn't perfect, if I don't have the right people, |
| 0:28.2 | if I can't build the software to be perfect, |
| 0:29.9 | if I can't make the phone call, if the script isn't right, |
| 0:32.0 | they've got a million excuses, all of which bundled down to, |
| 0:35.6 | like it's just not perfect, it's not good enough. |
| 0:39.4 | I want you just to consider, right? |
| 0:41.7 | That it's not about perfect, it's about progress, |
| 0:45.0 | it's about moving things forward, |
| 0:46.6 | it's about pushing the rock from here to there |
| 0:49.6 | and then waking up and doing it again |
| 0:51.8 | on those steps, on that journey journey that's how you get what it is |
| 0:55.8 | that you want right everything worthwhile takes time so if you're stopping |
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