Stop Chasing Perfection

It’s easy to get caught mak­ing your prod­uct, site, or ad per­fect. If you delay putting things out because it doesn’t seem quite good enough, this can be a trap in itself.

It’s great to make some­thing that wows oth­ers and makes a great impact. It’s per­fect! But per­fec­tion is sub­jec­tive and what some see as really good, oth­ers won’t like it at all. It’s all part of the nat­ural course of things.

But it’s real easy to get caught up in that your project could be just a lit­tle bit bet­ter. You could make this just a bit bet­ter. You want to keep work­ing at it until it’s per­fect and will be the best of the best. Perfect!

But as I said, per­fec­tion doesn’t really exist. Every­one looks at things in a dif­fer­ent light.

So what is a per­son to do? Work with the goal in your mind to make great prod­ucts. But don’t for­get to be real­is­tic. Make it the best that you can and get it out to the world. There are so many peo­ple around that a major­ity of peo­ple will prob­a­bly like it.

Strive for great prod­ucts and con­tent and then get it out! You are human after all and per­fec­tion does not exist. Here’s a few tips to help you out.

- Have some­one else look over it and get their opin­ion. Just when you think it could use some more work, oth­ers may be able to tell you it’s fine the way it is

- Don’t con­cen­trate on the lit­tle things. Some­times it easy to get caught try­ing to fix every­thing. But chances are those lit­tle things are some­thing oth­ers won’t even notice.

- Take a break from your project. Step away and come back to it later. You may just find out that it is actu­ally really good and ready to send out into the world.

- The parts your work­ing on, are they really rel­e­vant to the prod­uct itself? If not than you may be wast­ing your time on some­thing that’s really not that important.

Just remem­ber, noth­ing is per­fect. Work on the things that aim for your goal of the project. Think about the stan­dards you would put on some­one else if they were doing it. Get it done, get it real good and then just do it!

~Chris

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