Comments on: Are You Still Waiting For Perfection? http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/marketing/c/2010/02/04/913/are-you-still-waiting-for-perfection.html How coaches can get more clients online. By Biana Babinsky. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:57:41 +0000 By: Julie Bestry http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/marketing/c/2010/02/04/913/are-you-still-waiting-for-perfection.html#comment-2900 Julie Bestry Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:36:20 +0000 http://www.avocadoconsulting.com/marketing/?p=913#comment-2900 As a professional organizer, I urge clients to remember that "done is better than perfect", but I am guilty of the same perfectionist procrastination that you describe. In fact, I'm one of those people who researched and weighed and worried for far too long before going to an electronic newsletter. Your kick-in-the-pants advice is straight on: create the gift, create the page, create the autoresponders...you don't even have to write the actual newsletter until someone finally subscribes! :-) You were my cheerleader, Biana, who got me off my behind and into newsletter mode. As I say to you often (quoting Carrie Fisher in "When Harry Met Sally"): "You're right. You're right. I know you're right." Maybe those of us who fear(ed) an imperfect newsletter or blog should think of it a different way...if it's perfect when we start, we'll never give our subscribers a chance to say "Hey, this keeps getting better and better!" Henry James said "Excellence doesn't require perfection." And Ivan Turgenev said "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin." As a professional organizer, I urge clients to remember that “done is better than perfect”, but I am guilty of the same perfectionist procrastination that you describe. In fact, I’m one of those people who researched and weighed and worried for far too long before going to an electronic newsletter. Your kick-in-the-pants advice is straight on: create the gift, create the page, create the autoresponders…you don’t even have to write the actual newsletter until someone finally subscribes! :-)

You were my cheerleader, Biana, who got me off my behind and into newsletter mode. As I say to you often (quoting Carrie Fisher in “When Harry Met Sally”): “You’re right. You’re right. I know you’re right.” Maybe those of us who fear(ed) an imperfect newsletter or blog should think of it a different way…if it’s perfect when we start, we’ll never give our subscribers a chance to say “Hey, this keeps getting better and better!”

Henry James said “Excellence doesn’t require perfection.” And Ivan Turgenev said “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.”

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