Are you perfect? Do you strive to be perfect? Do you find it exhausting? While you don’t want to put forth shoddy goods or services, you do need to let go of perfection if you’re looking for happiness and satisfaction in both your business and your life.
What can you do to be less perfectly toxic? Here are three habits and behaviors I encourage you to let go of:
- Being competent and experienced is more crucial to success than is being perfect. If you’re a business owner you can drive your team away if you are constantly trying to be perfect rather than competent. While competency may not be the key to all your successes, perfection can certainly hold you back. To be effective as a leader, you will want to instill confidence in your team and you do that through the experience you bring to the table.
- Does not having all the answers mean you are a failure in business? It doesn’t. It means you are able to admit that you don’t know everything and that you will look for the answers. No one expects you — even as the business owner — to know everything. They do, however, expect you to be able to find the answers to the questions asked.
- If you’re perfect do you think you will be more successful? Chances are, you won’t because you will be in such heavy pursuit of perfection that your goals will fall by the wayside. Failures in business should be counted as learning and growth experiences — if you don’t fail that means you haven’t stretched yourself or tried anything new. Striving for success means you may stumble along the way and that’s all right!
Do you have any limiting beliefs that are holding you back from success?