08/26/2018
Perfection and Your Internet Marketing Business
Today I want to talk a little bit about chasing perfection in your internet marketing business. What made me think about it was a recent conversation I had with my son. You see my son is a brilliant musician and songwriter. I asked him what he had been working on lately and he told me a little about the new material as well as the process he goes through to create his music ready for others to hear.
What really stood out to me was him explaining to me that because of his being such a perfectionist one of the hardest things he has to do is to let his music go when it's ready. He told me that in his mind he always able to find something in his music that can be done differently to make it sound better. He also said that if he gave in to the perfectionist in him not one note of his music would ever be heard by ears other than his own.
My son had to actually learn the last step of creating, taking the action of letting his music go to serve its purpose, to be enjoyed by others.
That conversation with my son made me think about myself in my online business, how just like my perfectionist son I also had to overcome the obstacle of allowing the positivity of my perfectionism to become a negative force. You see, instead of me letting perfection lead me to the positive route to excellence, I instead was letting it drag me down the negative road of procrastination.
This was a very big deal for me, getting over the feeling of fear that my business, content, products, and services were never good as they could be, never quite ready to help the potential customer in my niche market.
I definitely had to work on developing the right mindset, the confidence in my online business and products. I had to learn to take that inevitable risk that comes with launching a new product or service.
Through the process I also learned a very valuable lesson, that is _“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”_. ―* John Lydgate*
It's is the taking to heart the words of that famous quote that helps me understand that you can never be perfect for everyone, so to strive for excellence instead.
That's my inspiration for you all today. While perfection in your online business can be a powerful asset if used with the right understanding, but if you're caught up in having to have everything perfect you'll find out it will never, ever, be ready to help the folk it was created to help in the first place. After all, how can your business or product help anyone if they never get the chance to know about it, see it, use it, or touch it because you can never let it go?
With that in mind, remember that it's okay to strive for perfection in your internet marketing once you realize it's something you may never attain, but worthwhile trying because of the excellence you will attain in benefits your business, products, and services will bring to those who use them.
Please consider this powerful quote for inspiration:
_"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence"_. - *Vince Lombardi*
The Good news is the misuse of perfection can be overcome!
So don't let perfection lead you to procrastination or inaction in getting your business out to the people. Let relative perfection lead you to excellence in online business, products, and services that you can take great pride in as they benefit those they were created to help.