BRX Pro Tip: Consistency is Better Than Perfection
Stone Payton: And we’re back with Business RadioX Pro Tips, Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, anyone who taps into our work or certainly listens to me, they know I am no fan of perfection. To me, consistency is so much more important. What’s your take?
Lee Kantor: I think that if you’re aiming for perfection, you’re setting yourself up to fail. I think consistency is the much better path. Repetitions are so much better than just waiting for perfect. And the only way to achieve or get close to perfection is by just doing the thing more often.
Lee Kantor: There was a story I read recently where a teacher who teaches pottery, they divided their class into two groups. She told one group, you’ll get an A if you produce 50 pounds of pots. And she told the other group, all you have to do is produce one pot, if it’s great, you’ll get an A. And then at the end of the class, they looked at all the pots that were created, and most of the great pots came from the group that produced the 50 pounds of pots, not the group that just did one.
Lee Kantor: Because it’s so much harder to get good at something if you’re only doing it one time. So keep that in mind, you need repetition, you need practice. That’s how you’re going to learn. That’s how you’re going to get better. That’s how you’re going to know what works and what doesn’t. That way you can kind of double down on what’s working and you’re just going to get better faster if you would just give yourself some grace and just consistently do the work. Do the thing over and over, you will get better over time.
Lee Kantor: So this week, pick one thing you’re going to do consistently. A weekly email, a daily blog post, a monthly webinar, whatever it is, just set a goal of good enough. That’s the standard, good enough. Decide what that minimum bar of quality is, and just do it over and over and over. That’s your goal is more. Don’t wait for perfect. Schedule it. Put it on your calendar as non-negotiable time, and just make sure you’re doing the thing.
Lee Kantor: And done consistently beats perfect eventually. So done now is better than perfect later. Start showing up. Keep showing up. Keep doing the thing.
