All my life, I’ve been told I must do things well. It became such a core belief that I would stop doing things at all if I couldn’t get it perfect.
It set me off into a pattern of starting and quitting when I inevitably couldn’t perfect it quickly enough—or I wouldn’t start at all. “What’s the point?” I would say. “It will never be good enough.” Well, I’ve had enough of that kind of thinking. From now on, I’ll be doing things regardless of my opinion of the results.
It’s impossible to do things well without doing them poorly at first. If anyone ever does, we have a phrase for it—beginner’s luck. We all know it takes repetition to get good at anything. For some reason, that often slips my mind.
Starting now, I’m setting a goal to do things poorly and upload work I’m not happy with. Life is too short to stall in the face of perfection—at the cost of creativity.
At some point we have to call it and say “I did my best,” then submit it, so we can move on to the next step in our lives.