Dean Graziosi argues that chasing perfection kills momentum. Instead, focus on incremental progress: be better today than last week, month, or year. Looking at your own achievements keeps you moving forward, not stuck comparing yourself to an impossible ideal.
I start off every call saying, this group, we are a culture of progress, not a culture of perfection, and not a culture of comparison. Because comparing yourself to the perfect version of you— I should be in better shape, I should listen a little more, I should work a little harder, I should make a little more money— can only depress you. Well, the only thing we have to focus on, if we can, is our own progress. If you're a better version today than last week, last month, last year, then we're moving forward. We just got to remember to look in the mirror at ourselves and look in the rearview mirror of what we've accomplished. And I think that just helps us in the present.
