Our perfectionism typically makes us suppose that the work we’ve produced isn’t ok and that we have to re-do it. This often turns into us doing our work over time and again. And after we get into this behavior, it’s very disheartening to even strategy a job so we find yourself procrastinating on it and placing it off.
On this episode, I’m speaking about why I needed to re-record two podcast episodes and the way I got here to a choice as as to whether or to not let myself do it. If you end up re-doing your work so it’s ok or continuously making little edits to something you create then this episode will assist.
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Introduction
Hello, and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Challenge, a podcast filled with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My title is Sam Laura Brown. I assist entrepreneurs launch their perfectionism handbrake to allow them to get out of their very own method and construct a satisfying and worthwhile enterprise. I’m the founding father of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished group teaching program, which is in any other case often known as PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that will help you with your enterprise, you possibly can comply with me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
Sam Laura Brown – (Begin of episode)
[0:29] Right this moment, I’m sharing with you an episode that’s properly beloved on this podcast. It’s the most effective of the podcast episode, and this one is that will help you establish when redoing your work is self sabotage, and when it’s not. With the ability to discern this for your self is extremely highly effective and extremely necessary. If you’re a perfectionist entrepreneur who will wish to actually redo each single factor that you just create, you’ll simply see the failings in it, the imperfection in it. You’ll have this imaginative and prescient for the way superb it may have been, and generally it’s productive to redo your work, and generally it isn’t. So on this episode, I speak via in actual time an instance of after I needed to re file some podcast episodes that I had recorded, and the way I decided about whether or not or not to try this.
[1:19] And I simply wish to share as properly. It’s going that will help you with this episode, and I can share it now that it’s been just a little whilesince this episode was initially launched, that the episodes I’m speaking about eager to re file. There are two of them. A type of episodes is the second most downloaded episode on this podcast. So there are over 500 episodes atthis level, and one of many episodes that my perfectionist mind was telling me, it wasn’t ok wasn’t going to be useful, is the second most downloaded episode of this podcast. Additionally the launch that I’m speaking about on this episode that these episodes I needed to re file we’re a part of a 5 half podcast sequence, which was a part of a launch promotion that we did for my program, perfectionist getting shit performed, which, by the best way, is opening once more very quickly for one week solely, the thirty first of January to the seventh of Feb, doorways will probably be open for pgsd. So be part of the wait checklist in the event you’re not already on it.
[2:20] However with that launch, I had been questioning, do I must re file them so the launch will probably be profitable? What if I don’t?Anyway, I simply wish to share to your context, as you hearken to this episode, that the launch that we did for perfectionist getting shit performed was an extremely profitable launch. We had 51 individuals join this system. We made in Australian {dollars}, $250,000 which is roughly, on the time, about $150,000 US. And that was performed with a few episodes included that my mind didn’t wish to publish. And so on this episode, I simply chat you thru what my considering was with deciding whether or not to re file and when to not re file. And I hope you discover it extremely useful.
[3:12] Hello everybody. I hope you’re going properly. So I needed to do the Stay this week on an expertise that I had yesterday, and simply type of speaking it via and sharing the expertise I had with recording the podcast episodes, three of those which can be going to be a part of the planning sequence occurring the podcast in January, as a result of an entire lot of perfectionist stuff got here up for me, and I’m nonetheless type of in the midst of determining whether or not it’s self sabotage to re file them, or if it’s self sabotage to not re file them. So I simply needed to share this, as a result of typically we share this sort of factor, otherwise you hear about it after the very fact, and after every part’s been performed, and the individual is aware of the result of their determination and might say sure, it was a great determination. Right here’s why or not. Wasn’t, right here’s why, however I assumed it is likely to be useful.
[4:05] I do know I discover it useful when others share this sort of factor, to speak concerning the expertise I had yesterday recording the podcast episodes, and what I’m serious about by way of the choice of whether or not or to not re file these podcast episodes. So only for a little bit of context and what I used to be doing yesterday, in order I mentioned, I used to be recording three podcast episodes which can be going to be a part of a 5 half planning sequence that I’m placing up on the podcast, The Perfectionism Challenge. That’s my podcast, in case you didn’t know, beginning on January 1 each different day.
[4:44] So it’ll go from the primary to the ninth of January, or the tenth, both method, the primary week or so of January. There will probably be loads of particular and sensible planning recommendation for you. And yesterday, I sat all the way down to file these episodes. And I did file them, and I had it on my energy planning that I used to be going to try this yesterday, and I did it yesterday, and that’s nice. After which after recording them. So after recording the primary one, I assumed that wasn’t excellent. And I hold going like I now, at this level, I’ve over 300 podcast episodes. I do know that simply because it doesn’t really feel tremendous flowy to me doesn’t imply that’s not how others would understand it, or even when they don’t understand it that method, that it wouldn’t be useful. And that’s a part of this entire factor that I do know I’m not the most effective choose of whether or not a podcast goes to be useful or not.
[5:39] So I felt like that wasn’t actually nice, and I did some self teaching on it, and actually bought myself on conserving that episode and simply persevering with on with my plan of doing the opposite episodes, as an alternative of re recording that episode and simply redoing my work. And I feel this matter is so related, as a result of after we are in that perfectionist mindset. We’ve got this perception that every part needs to be excellent for it to work, after which after we are we then enable ourselves to do issues like re recording in order that we will type of meet this standards that every part must be excellent to ensure that it to work. And that basically denies us the chance to have issues really feel imperfect and but they nonetheless work, and to show to our mind that it’s okay to launch issues that we don’t suppose are excellent, flowy, properly, articulated, no matter that appears like for you.
[6:40] So recorded the primary one. I used to be like, that wasn’t nice. Anyway. Gonna hold going with my plan. So then I recorded the second episode. And by the best way, simply in case it’s useful, I file my podcast episodes with I simply have, like, dot factors. I don’t script them out or something like that. And I feel for these episodes, I did much more dot factors than I might have usually, and I feel that’s most likely a part of it as properly. And I’m recording to different ones at present. So I feel simply as I’m serious about that now that’s one thing that it’s like that over planning that I used to be like, Okay, I wish to guarantee that I’m saying every part I wish to say with these episodes. And so I wrote so many dot factors, after which I actually really feel like I do my greatest, like, proper now, I simply have just a little pocket book. I can truly barely learn my writing with a few dot factors, and I can simply chat. And that’s I really feel like, actually after I discover it best to say stuff.
[7:35] So anyway, I then recorded the second episode, and by the best way, that episodes all concerning the energy planning methodology and precisely how that works and find out how to do it. In order that episode felt nice. After which I recorded the third episode, which is definitely the fourth one which’s going to be within the sequence, concerning the three month dedication to energy planning, and that one didn’t really feel nice both. And so after that, I used to be like, Okay, properly, perhaps I ought to simply re file them, or perhaps I shouldn’t re file them. Is it self sabotage to try this? Is it self sabotage not to try this? And so typically we might be on this place the place we now have self consciousness round self sabotage and getting in our personal method that it could actually really feel like, Yeah, however which one is it? Which one is the self sabotaging possibility, and I’m simply going to type of chat via what I’m serious about in making that call. And I noticed so unposted. So my rapid response is, don’t we file? However sure, that’s my rapid response too.
[8:38] And just lately, I used to be interviewed on a podcast, and the aspect of their audio wasn’t working, and so they mentioned, Oh, that’s okay. You already know, my mics a bit off, however I’ll simply re file my half. And I used to be like, wait, don’t re file. Like, why would you re file? It’s been nice. Like, from my notion, I’m like, Don’t re file. And so they’re most likely like, nice. I get to re file. Like, I wish to re file. So this isn’t an issue. And in order that’s the explanation for my podcast that I’ve recorded with out enhancing. I simply hit play, hit file, after which speak. And that doesn’t imply with these episodes, I can’t edit bits if I wish to, I feel as properly, if we’re in that every one or nothing mindset of like, properly, I by no means edit them, so if I wish to change bits, I’ve to utterly redo it. That doesn’t actually make sense, prefer it’s it’s actually necessary that if we now have parameters or private guidelines, like, I don’t edit my podcast, and after I say I don’t edit I don’t imply I don’t personally edit issues out, however another person does issues don’t get edited out of my podcast.
[9:38] But when I really feel like that should occur, as a result of there was some level I mentioned that type of makes use of every part, and it’s higher with out that, that I’d make that exception. However as a rule, I don’t let myself re file. I don’t let myself edit issues, as a result of I discovered, like again within the day after I was doing YouTube, I. I discovered that if I let myself re file, that was type of like an infinite job, that I might simply say issues over and again and again, then I utterly get out of the movement, as a result of I used to be attempting to say one sentence excellent, and it could take hours to file, like a 16 minute video. And I like with my podcast that it takes half-hour to file a 30 minute episode, and perhaps about 5 to 10 minutes of writing notes.
[10:28] And I do know some individuals work higher with loads of preparation and having a script and that type of factor, however I discovered personally, that doesn’t work for me, and that isn’t after I do my greatest work. And in addition I simply don’t take pleasure in that both. There’s so many issues I say on the podcast I didn’t plan to say, however they arrive out simply because I’m riffing. So anyway, I didn’t really feel like these podcast episodes have been nice ones, however I do know that I’m not probably the most dependable supply, or I’m not probably the most dependable, , I’m not capable of actually inform whether or not or not they’re going to be useful to another person. There’s a curse of information. I already know all of the issues that I’m speaking about, and I’m additionally considering extra about myself, like in that call to re file, I’m serious about myself and the way I’m perceived, whether or not I’m articulate, whether or not it’s making sense, whether or not I’m occurring an enormous tangent and rambling all that factor, I’m serious about myself in that query greater than I’m serious about the one that is listening on the opposite finish, and significantly after I take into consideration our most profitable PGSDers and individuals who’ve listened to the podcast for years now, I do know that these episodes are recorded.
[11:45] They’d completely love like, after I take into consideration, ought to I re file? I’m serious about myself, and I’m considering and the way I’m perceived, and I’m serious about the individuals who don’t actually get it, the individuals who aren’t my best individual that I’m right here to assist, and so I feel that’s one thing actually necessary. And this isn’t to say to not re file issues or something like I don’t suppose there’s a tough and quick rule. However the different factor that I’m serious about is liking my causes for me re recording. And for the time being, the explanations that I’ve for re recording I don’t like them. These causes can be, I wish to really feel extra articulate, after which I did a greater job explaining. And in addition, it is a massive level that I wish to make.The rationale that I’d re file these episodes is as a result of I might suppose that I gained’t have the ability to obtain the purpose that we now have round PGSD, the subsequent promotion that we as a staff gained’t have the ability to obtain it, and I’ll let our staff members down as properly if every part isn’t precisely excellent.
[12:50] And naturally, that’s so subjective, and it’s simply primarily based on my sense of how I really feel about myself and all of that type of factor. But it surely’s this perception that all of it needs to be excellent to ensure that it to work. And so this may then carry up this sort of query about, properly, don’t you wish to do your greatest work? And isn’t it doing the most effective service to everybody in the event you do re file them, in order that it’s instructing within the clearest method doable, and that type of factor, and that’s legitimate. However on the identical time for me to actually follow what I preach about perfectionism, about getting out of your personal method, I really feel like for me tofully be within the perception that we will obtain that purpose and assist the individuals we wish to assist, no matter if these podcast episodes went out or we re recorded them, after which from that place, making the choice, okay, if it really works both method. If it really works with me recording them once more and with me conserving the recordings I did, would I redo it? No, I wouldn’t redo it. I might simply hold going with my plan. I’m on monitor with my plan.
[14:01] I’ve needed to positively make changes and make modifications, and we’ve had some reno stuff occurring and all of that type of factor. However I’m on monitor with my plans. And so I feel a part of this too isn’t just a perception that every part needs to be excellent and like really feel a sure method for me to have the ability to obtain my purpose, and attempting to actually depend on the circumstances for me to have that perception, but in addition I’ve up to now performed so many issues on the final minute. I’m significantly serious about college and highschool as properly, however particularly College, the place I used to be all the time doing my assignments on the final minute. I keep in mind significantly one event I didn’t try this. I used to be like, let’s simply see what it’s love to do it forward of time. And I didn’t do in addition to I usually did by my notion. I don’t know if I did that the identical project the final minute. I may not have performed properly on it both, however in my thoughts, like and this a affirmation bias, that after I do it on the final minute, I do properly. After I do it forward of time, I don’t do properly.
[15:05] And so it’s taken, like I’ve performed loads of work to rewire and reprogram that, however on the identical time, I can nonetheless really feel this, like I’m not an overwhelm, like there’s loads to do, there’s loads on my calendar. There’s different issues occurring in my life as properly, and me getting this performed up to now forward of time, like the primary episode I recorded yesterday doesn’t exit till the primary of January, and there’s a lot time to be recorded. There’s a lot time to overthink it, there’s a lot time to re file in order that I might be behind on my plans and be overwhelmed, and for it to be to really feel a bit chaotic. And I feel this has actually uncovered for me as properly that I nonetheless have a perception there that factor I gained’t do as properly, like issues gained’t be nearly as good in the event that they’re not performed on the final minute.
[15:55] And in addition, simply as I nonetheless have that consolation and familiarity with being overwhelmed and being behind on plans, and that after I’m not and that is after, like, loads of follow already, however there’s layers of labor. And so after I’m at this level like I’m nonetheless feeling like, properly, there’s no chaos right here by way of my work day, by way of what’s getting performed, every part’s going actually bodily. And my mind believes that that could be a drawback, like desires to provide me a motive to re file this, which might then change my plans at present. And I’ve obtained, like, an entire buffer day on Sunday. So if issues must get performed, I deliberate nothing, and I can put something in there, so there’s room for it. And I feel that’s why my mind is entertaining it. There’s room for it. And if these episodes had gone out at present, I wouldn’t have ever thought I’d be like, cool, it’s performed, it’s going out. That’s that. It’s going to be useful. However as a result of it’s prematurely, it offers my mind that chance to overthink it and to suppose, properly, there’s all this time, so it needs to be excellent.
[17:11] And that’s why we love residing issues the final minute, as a result of we now have much less of an expectation on ourselves for what we will produce. And I posted simply earlier than on Insta Tales The perfectionist energy up that I despatched out yesterday that was saying, perhaps you don’t do your greatest work on the final minute, perhaps you haven’t but skilled your greatest work. And for me with this, I actually wish to not re file them, in order that I can show to myself that it didn’t matter. And if I rerecord them and we obtain the purpose, I’m gonna say, Properly, it’s as a result of I re recorded them like that’s the place my mind’s gonna wish to go, after which that reinforces that behavior and saying, Properly, that was what made me profitable, and for this reason it could actually really feel actually scary to begin doing the work on perfectionism and getting out of our personal method, as a result of it like our mind has confirmed. That’s why it labored.
[18:09] So to let go of re recording issues and redoing issues and having every part be excellent seems like, properly, that’s like, how will it work then? As a result of that’s the explanation it labored. However we now have to provide our brains and ourselves this chance to love, for our mind to deceive us after which for us to show it’s a lie, as an alternative of listening to that after which performing upon it after which reaffirming that. So I do know as properly if I re file the episodes after which we didn’t obtain the purpose that my mind would additionally say, Properly, you’d have performed even worse. In case you didn’t redo the episodes. You’d have been capable of assist much less individuals. You’d have had much less individuals be part of PGSD. Since you didn’t re file them. And in order that, to me, is telling me that there’s a perception that I’ve, that issues must be excellent to ensure that a sure consequence to occur.
[19:05] And I don’t wish to purchase into that perception, which I really feel like I’d be doing if I’m re recording. I as an alternative wish to spend the time that I might spend re recording, doing the self teaching and that type of work on believing deeper in my purpose, believing deeper in our program, believing deeper in who I assist, who we assist, that’s extra productive work for me than me spending the time re Recording, and if I then get to, , the week earlier than, when every part’s being performed, and I’ve time, I’m twiddling my fingers and, like, truly, I actually really feel nice concerning the episodes, and I wish to re file them, simply because I can. Then I’ll let myself try this. However for the time being, it’s not. Simply because I can motive that I might re file, it’s as a result of I feel these ones wouldn’t be ok, and that’s simply primarily based on my notion, which is totally warped. I’m not the best individual for pgsd as a result of I’m already built-in energy planning absolutely into my life I’ve been doing it for years like I’m not the best individual that we’re serving to.
[20:25] My previous self is for certain, however my current day self, who was the one judging the episodes, isn’t who they’re designed for. And so I simply needed to share a bit about that,as a result of we will hear this sort of factor after the very fact. And I feel determination making and self belief, if I discuss this all thetime, we work on this in PGSD, it’s so necessary. It’s every part. And what must occur for me to additional construct my self belief on this scenario is for me to determine what I’m going to do. And I’m simply going to say, proper now, I’m excellent now, I’m deciding to not re file after which again myself on that call, in order that if say we didn’t obtain the purpose, that I wouldn’t, then blame my previous self and say I ought to have made a special determination with that. As a result of the truth is it’s it’s ever one factor that’s not going to be the case. However my mind desires to go there and beat me up and say, Properly, you shouldn’t have made that call.
[21:30] But when I as an alternative can do a assessment, a mirrored image, which is what we do each time we do a launch of what didn’t work, what to do otherwise, then I’d say, Properly, subsequent time, I’d do one thing totally different with the podcast episodes, and it could be these particular issues. It wouldn’t be simply primarily based on my hunch about how the episode went, which is predicated on actually how properly I really feel I articulated the concepts and whether or not I felt prefer it was arduous to seek out phrases, which at occasions it’s, particularly truly, Lydia’s been sleeping just a little bit the previous few days. However after I haven’t had a lot sleep, it’s a lot tougher to seek out the correct phrases and to carry issues collectively. And that’s okay. And so with re recording and something. So with this I’m speaking about, it is likely to be, , you’ve written an Instagram put up, after which it comes time to put up it, like, truly, I ought to simply redo it. Otherwise you’ve performed a dwell and then you definately’re like, truly, I’m simply gonna re file that and put up the one which I want I’d performed.
[22:38] It’s so useful to not enable your self to try this and to solely enable your self to try this in the event you’re on the level the place you’re doing it simply since you wish to, not since you really feel prefer it must be a special method so as foryour enterprise to develop, so as so that you can obtain a purpose, and all of these various things, and that may be actually arduous to determine you needdefinitely a sure stage of self consciousness. And I don’t know that I’m proper on this, however I do know that the most suitable choice for me is to decide again myself, no matter that call is, to not enable myself to be on this ought to I? Shouldn’t I type of vitality, however this morning to only have made that call, after which go all in on that call and make that call, the correct determination. Or my on this mindset that there’s like this proper determination on the market, and we simply need to figureout which one it’s. It’s so difficult. We find yourself deciding nothing in any respect. I may simply spend the subsequent three weeks re recording these episodes and doing that time and again and once more. And once more. Like final night time, I used to be speaking it via with Steve, and I used to be like, I don’t even know if the episodes I might re file would really feel any higher than those I recorded yesterday.
[23:49] And there are such a lot of issues like I hear all of the occasions in DMS and that type of factor, that there will probably be one thing I mentioned in an episode that I don’t even keep in mind saying, or that I felt like was a totally uninteresting level, and that basically shifted somebody’s method that they consider themselves, or they consider their enterprise. And so I’m not the most effective choose of it. And so on this scenario as properly, it might be like, Okay, properly, I’m going to provide it to somebody on my staff to hearken to, and so they can inform me. And I’d try this if I obtained to the purpose that I’d, I’m going to vary it simply because I wish to, however I actually really feel like as properly, on this scenario, with the mindset that I’m in round it, that that may simply be searching for validation, after which what’s going to occur is that’s going to bolster that I want another person to inform me ifit’s good Sufficient. And I don’t actually wish to reinforce that.
[24:42] That’s to not say that we’re not a collaborative staff. And there’s positively issues I ask for suggestions on, nevertheless it’s not fromthis place of I want affirmation that it’s okay. I want affirmation that that is going to be useful. And yeah, I feel we simply. At any time when we’re confronted with this sort of factor, it’s actually making that call with our private development and businessgrowth in thoughts, and never simply the subsequent factor that we’transforming in the direction of, however having that larger image imaginative and prescient. And after I take into consideration the imaginative and prescient for the enterprise and for PGSD, and what we’re serving to individuals with by way of perfectionism, that ifI suppose again on this, like if I’m going into my future self and I feel again on this expertise, which one can be higher for my development, for me to have stored the episodes I recorded and performed the private growth work round believing in my purpose so arduous that it doesn’t matter if these episodes went out or they didn’t exit in any respect, or like one thing else occurred.
[25:48] Or wouldn’t it be higher for my development if I redid these episodes and requested others in the event that they’re ok, like that’s probably not going to assist my development. That may, within the brief time period, doubtlessly change the results of these episodes and the way many individuals be part of pgst, however by way of my private development and the enterprise development in the long run, and likewise a part of that’s me practising what I preach and residing what we train inside PGSD. And I do know for certain that if I used to be teaching somebody on this inside PGSD, I might say, Don’t re file them. And I might actually need to struggle for me to have the ability to say that seems like an incredible concept. And I do know this may be difficult after we suppose no, nevertheless it’s in the most effective curiosity of the listener for me to ship that greatest work. However I do know that I’m not an incredible choose at that. I don’t suppose many people are. We’retoo near the worth of what we do to have the ability to see it.
[26:56] So yeah, that’s all I actually needed to talk about at present. I hope it’s been useful to listen to about, like, whenever you’re within the thick of one thing like this, what you might be serious about. And actually, I feel for me, the largest factor that’s helped has been serious about, if we achieved the purpose, both method, what would I do? As a result of that then reveals that I’ve that lack of perception that I nonetheless must work on, and I must work on that perception that we will obtain the purpose no matter like every part feeling precisely excellent, and that a part of my work as properly, is that doing issues forward of time feels reallyuncomfortable in loads of methods, and particularly when it’s not even like, like, there’s no deadline strain in any respect, not from my staff, not like, for the date that it’s going up on the podcast. Like, I may get these to Eloisa, who places up our podcast in like two weeks time.
[28:02] And so as a result of that is a lot time, it’s like, Properly, I do have the time to file them. So it’s simple to to fantasize about that and take into consideration doing that, however I don’t suppose that it could be me doing what’s greatest for the expansion of the enterprise, for my private development, and likewise for our PGSDers as a result of I actually wish to be an instance of what we train, and that I can actually again myself with my selections and follow doing that, and never then simply be searching for validation and somebody inform me it’s ok, or shopping for into this perception I’ve that it must be excellent and precisely proper for us to realize the purpose. So I wish to obtain that purpose, whatever the episodes that exit and try this work as an alternative. So I’mgonna wrap it up and intention for 20 minutes. We’re at 26 however I hope it’s been useful. And when you have any questions and also you’re watching the replay of this, go away them within the feedback. However I’m gonna wrap it up right here. I hope you’re having a fantastic day, and I’ll speak to you quickly.
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