BRX Pro Tip: Don’t Let Perfection Fuel Procrastination
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, here’s a good piece of counsel. Don’t let perfection fuel procrastination.
Lee Kantor: Right. Most procrastinators are perfectionists, and I think it’s a lot better to get things done in an imperfect manner than it is to wait until things are perfect before releasing your work into the world. So the sooner you can accept the 80-20 rule for your work, the sooner you’ll get more things done and move a lot closer to achieving your goals.
Lee Kantor: I’m not advocating for putting anything out there just to get things out there, but I think it is okay to put things that work out there that get the job done than wait until you have that full-featured work of art that’s perfect. Your minimum viable product that’s in the market today can turn into that work of art tomorrow after you learn from real-world implementation rather than how you think the thing is going to work in your head.
Lee Kantor: So, it’s important to get data from the market in order to really optimize whatever it is you’re working on. And a lot of people get bogged down by trying to make it too perfect on a whiteboard or in their head before they release it. So, I think it’s much better to release work out into the wild and learn from your customers or the people in your community rather than just kind of overwork it and overanalyze it before you release it because ultimately the consumer is going to make the final decision if you have a hit or not. So the sooner you get that information out there, the faster you’re going to have the success you desire.
