Time to read: less than one minute because you have s*$% to do!
Imperfection at its finest.
Hello rebels!
To say that the past couple of weeks have been slammed would be an understatement. See if any of this sounds familiar to you...
- My children are off for the summer. Bye-bye routine. Hello daily unpredictability and chaos.
- I have daily client calls and meetings and have to take some of them from my bedroom because of see #1.
- We're taking a trip next week so everything has gotten crammed into this week.
- My BFF and I are launching a project for y'all in August and spent yesterday shooting videos.
- A volunteer job requires hours of emails and organizing.
- There's always a dose of interpersonal drama that sucks time and energy when you work with other people.
- Then there's just regular life: showering, walking the dog, making food, cleaning.
Can you relate?
In weeks like this, the name of the game is "get s#*$ done."
So, how do you get your s*@# done with quality, efficiency and speed?
Keep this one simple moto in mind:
Completion over perfection.
In shooting the videos, Anne and I stumbled over our words sometimes. Did we shoot each video 10 times to get it perfect? NO! We declared our stumbling charming and human and moved to the next video.
I usually have this newsletter written by Tuesday afternoon. Here it is, Thursday morning, and I'm slamming it out before my children wake up. Am I beating myself up for not making my internal deadline or considering letting it go this once? NO. I woke up, chose a topic, and started writing.
Be thoughtful. Do good work. Meet your deadlines (or communicate well if you won't). Don't spend hours dotting every "i" and crossing every "t." Your 80% is good enough. Otherwise, perfection will make you insane. We're not fans of insanity here at the Corporate Rebel.
Get 'er done and move on.
I hope this helps.
Christina
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