Is Perfection Your Enemy?
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008How often have you been told here that the two keys to wealth and success are [first] mindset, and [second] action? Countless. And few people argue that. To build wealth you have to develop the mindset of the wealthy, and then you have to take actions that are capable of producing wealth. A lot of people get hung up on the action-taking, though. Why? Often the cause is perfection.
Perfection As The Enemy Of Progress
This is a piece of advice I’ve actually given in the past to the readers at my Wealth Creation Affiliate blog. It applies very logically to them—affiliates will wait to long for their website promotions, etc to be perfectly “right” and will miss out on so many opportunities and wind up just wasting time. The same applies to creating wealth—if you wait for the perfect moment to take action and get started, you’ll never get going!
Does this mean that you go ahead without getting educated? Without learning how to direct your efforts? No. Does it mean developing wealth needs no strategy or structure? No.
This simply means that it is okay to start taking actions towards wealth and good living without perfecting that strategy. Start small and grow. Positive action will attract more positive action, and will put you into the habit of prioritizing your wealth, goal-setting, achieving, and snowballing that into more wealth, and on and on. You can always change and develop your plans and strategies later. But you need to at least start somewhere. Remember that one step? This is it.
Perfection is elusive, impossible for humans. Mistakes are okay—they are opportunities. Even failures are opportunities. If you are waiting for everything to be perfect, that time will never come. If you are waiting until you know all there is to know about building wealth, you will find there is always something new to learn. The best course of action is to start learning, apply what you know, and start acting to become wealthy today.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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