Saturday, 12 October 2013

How trying to be perfect holds you back from success

By trying to be perfect, it actually works against you. Stalls our progress, limits your talent and keeps you from being successful.
When you say your product is imperfect, in who’s eyes is it imperfect? YOURSELF
When you say you want your product to be perfect before unleashing it onto the market, who are you making it perfect for? YOURSELF
Your product seems imperfect to you only. No one else has experienced your product, yet.
Beauty is in the eye of the holder. So is perfection. What I’ve discovered in my journey is that there is no such thing as perfect.
Will your customers see it as perfect just because you do?
Its the entrepreneurs who take the plunge and release their products onto the market that succeed. It sounds weird but the truly successful people took their products out there, got feedback, tweaked things, sent it back out, tweaked multiple times. Note that this never made their product perfect. It was brought to a level that satisfied customers demand at that point in time.
Do you see Google, Facebook and other businesses continuously releasing updates and modifications to their products? If they were striving for perfection at the first release, why then would they require updates? Are they successful now? U bet. Will they require further changes to their products? Certainly.
So stop over-worrying, get your product to a reasonable standard with a distinction against your competition and start marketing it! The market will tell you what changes it requires to be better (not perfect).

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