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Where’s the rush?

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We are taught to hurry, to get things done quickly, grow our businesses fast, before someone else comes along and does it first.

There is a great deal of pressure associated with this philosophy and it is all driven by the feeling of following the accepted ‘wisdom’.

It is all part of a culture of instant gratification and not being prepared to wait for anything.

We set up a business and immediately want to fast track it to success by borrowing money and buying instant success.

If it doesn’t work instantly, then ‘pivot’ also known as giving up.

But where is the fun in that? Where is the sense of satisfaction?

Life is a wonderful journey and if we are to craft our very best creations, then that takes time.

Taking time and enjoying it, is much more rewarding and it doesn’t matter if others are perceived to have done ‘it’ first, as you are not looking to create any kind of ‘it’. You are looking to create your own unique work, that will be simply that, unique. That takes time, practice and patience.

Enjoy what you do, don’t rush it for others. Go and create what resonates with you, take your time, enjoy the challenges and digest the learning. Then feel the happiness and joy of sharing something that you know is the best you could have done.

Good enough

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That’s ‘good enough’, is something I have been guilty of saying on more than one occasion, well truthfully, on hundreds, if not more occasions.

It’s strange, that with no restrictions, except for the ones that we put on ourselves, that we would accept just ‘good enough’.

If we are going to bother summing up enough determination to overcome inertia and start something, why would we settle for just plain old ‘good enough’?

It could be that we try to do too much in any given time period, the pressure of wanting to live up to this almost macho bullshit of ‘working hard’ and ‘I’m so busy’. Therefore, because we have set unrealistic goals of what we can achieve, we often rush things or accept ‘good enough’.

Maybe we are fearful of sharing our truly best creations, in case it is too different, and we fear others might not like it, so our powerful limbic ‘chimp’ takes over, rattles the cage and we accept ‘good enough’.

Possibly, it is all part of the play it ‘safe’ culture that the homogenised industrialised world has brainwashed us with, to ensure we just comply and do our jobs, without causing any noise or upsetting the status quo. So as a tick box exercise we have been programmed to produce just ‘good enough’.

I’m for trying doing less, but giving it my best shot to produce something that is remarkable. It’s hard, because you have to unlearn.

However, I know that by overcoming fears, being courageous and vulnerable, only then, will we find out what we are truly capable of. What a waste of a lifetime never to try and find out.