Name: Why Perfectionism Will Crush Your Productivity — And How To Stop It
Uploaded: 2016-11-15T08:04:08.000Z
Duration: 5 min 10 s
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Hey, it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business

Did you know we’ve actually been collecting Q’s using the hashtag #HeyMarie?

And we’ve been cruising around that hashtag for Q’s and we found this great one from

Thank you and your team so much for all you do.

My question, I’m launching my new business soon and I catch myself endlessly tweaking.

How do I know when enough is enough and hit the publish button?

You know, most of us waste an enormous amount of time, way too much time, trying to get

Always hit it sooner than you think you could or you should.

It is the one thing that separates the winners from the wannabes in almost every area of

And, look, none of us are immune to this.

I mean, we can all slip into this mindset if we’re not careful.

I have certainly been guilty of this a lot in the past and it’s something I work to

One of the ways that I do this is by living by this mantra: go for progress, not perfection.

Now, the goal is to always keep yourself in a growth oriented mindset where you’re focused

on learning and experimentation and getting better and just putting shiz out there.

Now, to be clear, I am not telling you to put crap out into the world or to lower your

You should always work really hard and you’ve always got to put in your very best effort,

but as for endless tweaking like tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, all

that is is really a manifestation of procrastination and fear.

And I think Mr. Reid Hoffman got it right when he said, “If you are not embarrassed

by the first version of your product, you have launched too late.”

And I’ve gotta tell you, Laura, I will be the first person to say that the very first

public version of almost everything I do or everything I’ve done, when I look back on

I mean, some of it is kind of mortifying.

I am relentless when it comes to learning and growing and evolving and improving and

And also, know this, no matter how perfect you think you’ve gotten whatever you're

creating, you’re probably going to change it after you put it out there.

And there’s no shame in growing and improving your work.

No one’s gonna say, like, “Oh, I see you.

So for you, Laura, and all my endless tweakers out there, whenever you find yourself getting

sucked into that perfectionism sinkhole, which sucks, I want you to remember this Tweetable.

If you wait to get it perfect, you’ll never get it out there.

That was my A to your Q Laura, and before we wrap up, if you haven’t yet seen our

episode that we did right over here about the power of starting small and sucky, you’ve

gotta watch it now because it’s the perfect side dish to this one.

Thank you Laura for using the hashtag #HeyMarie and for all y’all, keep your Q’s coming.

Can you relate to Laura’s desire to keep tweaking and tweaking and tweaking away?

How do you know when it’s time to just stop tweaking and hit that publish button?

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Thank you so much for watching and I’ll catch you next time on MarieTV.

It was so much fun I forgot where I was going next.

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