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Ship it

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You can keep polishing something, hoping for yet greater levels of shine.

Perfection, even if it were attainable, would only last a brief moment until someone or something else out-perfected it.

Imperfect is actually what makes anything special, special.

Concentrate on doing something that is new, not merely putting a different coat of paint on somebody else’s work or what you did before. Make something that will stand out, but don’t take forever, just ship it, get it out there to the world.

After all the best way to learn is to try, and try, and try, and try again. Making your creation better each time.

Practice makes better not perfect.

Ship not shine, it will give you the edge on the people who feel the need to polish instead of creating.

In our head

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What goes on inside our heads are mainly stories that we invent about life.

What a person might be doing or saying, particularly when we believe it is harmful to us, which is strangely always the default position in our thinking.

What others might say about how we look or the thing we have created.

It is all an invention that we make up.

Fears that we have, that’s the emotional fears, not the physical ones, are based on what we make up.

So why not invent a better or different story, it is our choice entirely.

Fear is the inspiration to make up stories, excuses, we fear what matters the most, and therefore changing the story we’re inventing removes the fear.
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