Hey Spartans, welcome back to Spartan Stand. I'm Brian Chantosh, and I want to talk to you today about perfection.

I kind of have a problem with perfection and I think there's a misunderstanding about why it's important or when it's important and we put over emphasis on everything trying to be perfect or at least I do.

I know with this podcast right here I try to make sure that I'm giving the most perfect, crisp, concise message to you all because you deserve it.

So I want to represent myself well. I want to represent Spartan well. So we take two, take three, take four, and I think it's kind of ironic that we're on take 14 or 15 on perfection. But I think perfection, but I think perfection stagnates even getting started, at least for me.

It's such a desire to deliver the best product that I sit in the design phase for too long.

And I just keep designing and I keep editing and designing and I never get started.

We've heard so many wise people in the world that say, hey, just get started.

just get the momentum going and then put in consistency and if I

overemphasize perfection I'm never getting started. I have a saying that is, excellence is delicious or good enough isn't.

We're going to talk about those on a couple of other podcasts and I think I struggle there also because I believe in those things and when I talk about perfection is the enemy

It's in conflict and so I try to negotiate that conflict between the two and the only thing I've come up with is if there's a time and a place for one or the other and it has to do with stakes or results or what your intentions are.

So don't get stagnated by trying to be perfect.

Forgive yourself a little bit.

Trust that other people are going to forgive you in the process and understand that, hey, it's a work in progress or they can see the message you're trying to deliver or what you're trying to

refine it,

refine it, assess it, supervise it, redesign it, and then keep the cycle going.

We have a saying in the military that the 80% solution executed on time and

aggressive is better than the 100% solution executed too late and I think about that and I'm like, yeah, let's do it. Let's just get started and now I have something to look back at. I can look back at it. I can see myself or I I can evaluate the performance, and there's the obligation.

I can try to achieve perfection, but don't not get started until you're already there.

Reaching perfection is about a process. I have to I have to travel to get

there. So the first thing you gotta do is gotta get started and then you're obligated to just stay in

tune with it. I make 80% solutions all the time and I start executing and I pride myself on being a decision

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