Choose Progress Over Perfection

Sometimes it’s hard to look at your leaders and believe they were in the exact same position that you are right now.  But they all started in the same place as you. They all rank advanced in the same order as you.

We are all born with different challenges to confront and different things to learn.  But we all have ample amounts of fear.  The only way to get truly good at something is to be prepared to be bad at it first.  The key is not to be perfect - it is to have emotional resilience to be ok when you’re not.  It’s a process!

So, perhaps it’s time to reevaluate the goal: it is not perfection, but progress.  Even a bad meeting, even getting a ’no’ is progress.

When an athlete trains for a sport, he is aware that being a champion is about always being prepared to improve.  Maybe its time to release the pressure of all the things you’re not good at, and think about the gifts you bring to the table - compassion, kindness and determination….  For example.

People don't get into business with you because you have all the facts or all of the answers.  They get into business with you because you have the right HEART. 

At the end of the day, you’re not alone. Our leaders were in exactly the same place you are right now. If you dont know something, you are backed up by one, or many, of those leaders.  You have resources to reach for and it’s ok to say, “I dont know.  Let me find out.”

Don’t wait for the road to be clear before you start the journey.  Love yourself for having the courage to put the key in the ignition and start getting excited about where you are headed not where you are right now.

3 Min Story: www.bsuccessful.com