So many dear and wonderful women I know (including me) get caught in trap of perfectionism on a regular basis.
We wonder: Is this good enough? Will it land with my audience? Am I doing it right? What if I mess up?
These are all common concerns, but they stop us from taking the necessary actions that will propel us toward our ultimate goals. Sometimes this can happen in decision-making as well (as illustrated by my questions below in thinking through my job search):
-academia? public sector? nonprofits? small companies? (note: I have temporarily ruled out large companies)
-program management? project management? people management?
But when we allow ourselves to linger too much on each of the options, we just allow confusion to cloud our judgment.
This is how I feel when I am writing blog entries. I give myself about 20-30 minutes to draft an entry. Then I figure out a picture (~5 minutes?) and get it posted up. If I have a little more time on my hands, I spend another 5-10 minutes editing. In total, I spend no more than 45 minutes on each post.
It is not that I don’t *think* through ideas when I brainstorm topics. But the writing itself is typically posted without a lot of anguish or delay.
And that’s why I can write often without much stress about it. I press the publish button and I let go of the result. I am grateful that so many “citizen journalists” can exist today without editorial gatekeepers.
Sometimes I notice there are typos when I go back and read prior entries, particularly if I did not remember to go back and edit. But well, what can I say? This is the internet. Everything has a pretty short shelf-life.
Very often I will go back and read a month of entries (or entries from the year before) and discover themes emerging that I find interesting. Or I’ll realize: wow, I keep learning the SAME lesson over and over again! 😉
I move on, and I create more. There is very little advantage to spending lots of time to polish each post until it shines. Good enough is good enough.
cristy@meximinnesotana.com
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Couldn’t agree more. Having a blog has helped me push past the overthinking, the indecision, the trap of perfectionism. I’m grateful I decided to start blogging. It has helped improve my writing, but it’s done much, much more than just that.
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It’s amazing, isn’t it? We produce so much more when we can just let it flow through us and share it. Also, I think connections with like-minded others can be a great bonus!
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