Stop Striving for PERFECTION, Aim for Excellence

Good morning, Believe Nation. Today's message is Achieve Professional Excellence. Over to you, Tiger Woods. I wake up every morning with espresso to keep me going.

There is such a thing as perfection, and because we are human, we're all technically imperfect. So how can we ever achieve perfection? But what I can— I will tell you this, that I I've always been a big believer of professional excellence. And that's what I try and achieve. I know I can never get to a point where I hit perfect shots every time. And I just want to become the best I can be. And that to me is professional excellence.

It's interesting to me that he talked about being a perfectionist and trying to be perfect. I find that being a perfectionist holds a lot of people back in their business and in their life because it's impossible to be perfect. It's impossible to be a golfer and get a hole-in-one on every hole. It's not possible. It's never happened. It's not going to happen. And so a lot of people take that approach in their business, that they don't want to release anything until it's perfect. And I have this nagging tendency as well. It used to be a lot worse than it is now. In my first business, I didn't want to release my business until I had the perfect business plan. And so I spent an entire summer just working on my business plan, and I didn't want to release it because it's not perfect yet, it's not perfect yet, not perfect yet. It's got to be exactly it, or I'm not going to release it. Little did I know that the perfect business plan does not exist, and that as soon as I launched out to the market, a lot of my assumptions were wrong, and we made a lot of mistakes, and I wish I had gone sooner. And that's the plague that really hurts perfectionists, is that we don't do enough acting. There are some people who just act too much. They're out just trying a whole bunch of stuff. And those people maybe need to plan a little bit more. But perfectionists, they spend too much time planning. I spent too much time in the past planning, maybe even a little bit now, where a lot of people still spend too much time planning and not enough time doing and testing and acting and seeing if it works. If you are a perfectionist, then chances are that perfectionist nature can be really good and make sure your attention to detail, make sure that you don't make mistakes, but the negative side of it is you plan so much that it holds you back from actually acting on things that will help your business grow. And chances are this is something that, if it plagues you today, has plagued you your entire life. And just realizing that and getting out of the comfort zone a little bit to act a little bit more instead of striving for perfection but striving for professional excellence, you have a much higher chance of achieving success. So the question of the day today is, are you a perfectionist or not, and do you feel like it holds you back sometimes? Leave it in the comments below, I'm gonna join the discussion. I also wanna give a quick shout out to Jeremy Okrafka from mentornetwork.ca. Jeremy, thank you so much for purchasing a copy of my book, really means a lot to me. Those of you watching, if you want your chance at a shout out in a future video, make sure to Grab a copy of the book and also email in your receipt so we can keep track. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.