#246: Stop waiting, stop perfecting, stop hiding: How to embrace progress over perfection - Tash Corbin, Heart-Centred Business Podcast

Show notes can be found at tashcorbin.com/246 Today I am imploring you to STOP waiting, STOP perfecting, STOP hiding, and embrace progress over perfection. Before we dive into this episode, I want to let you know that you do not need to identify as a perfectionist in order for perfectionism to be impacting your results in business. Whether you identify with the whole 'perfectionism' thing or not, I think this is going to be a really helpful episode. Let's dive on in! Whether I'm running free challenges or workshops, working with clients in my group program or in VIP one-to-one sessions, I will invariably come across a time with them where they use the phrase, 'I just need to ...'. They're putting something before whatever it is that they want to be doing. It might be that they want to: Create an online course, but they just need to grow their audience by another thousand people first Get their business out there, but they just need to make sure they have the perfect brand first Do something that's really in their heart's work, but they just need to have more savings behind them It's always a matter of needing something else in order to be ready for a certain thing. It's important for us to be able to discern whether it's a valid reason or if it's actually perfectionism coming out to play. One of the biggest and most powerful questions that I ask myself when I am in that space of feeling like I can't do something yet because I need to do something else first, is how can I just get started? What CAN I do now? It is such a powerful circuit break up because it helps me to understand whether I actually can't do anything right now due to truly needing something else first, or whether I'm just holding myself back and could have already started on my path. As I said at the start of this podcast episode, you don't need to identify as a perfectionist in order for perfectionism to be messing with you and your business, and stopping you from actually starting to make progress. Progress is so much more powerful than perfection. What is this perfectionism that can come and play with us? 1. A feeling of not being ready Whether it's your course that's not ready, your Facebook page, branding or any number of things. This is what can cause you to hold yourself back because there's always something that isn't ready. 2. Creating things that never see the light of day When it's never ready, it's never the right time, or you just never feel like it's good enough for you to be able to share it with other people. I actually asked this question in my 5-Day Client Attraction Challenge a couple of weeks ago. I asked who had ever created an offer, changed the wording, worked on an image for it and then never shared it publicly, and we had sooooo many people putting #guilty and #thatsme in the comments. It was so powerful for us all to see that it is such a common behaviour. It's so fascinating because we know at a logical level that if we did go and share that offer, even if it didn't make any sales, chances are it would have given us traction, it would have given us insight into what people are interested in, and we might have got some questions. But instead, we never shared it so now we don't know and are constantly living in this state of wonder. I wonder if that would have ever worked? Or what if I had done that back when I first had the idea? I've got a really juicy example for you. In 2010, my partner Honest Dave had this idea of creating a website around the theme of 'Would you pay $1 to see how many people have paid $1'. He had this super fun idea to create a website wLet me know your thoughts via our Text FanMail!Join us in Noosa at the Heart-Centred Business Conference on 2-3rd September!Find out more and secure your ticket at: tashcorbin.com/conference