Perfectionism doesn’t work, unforunately

It's been six months, almost to the day since I made my last video.
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And partly it's because I'm a perfectionist. Now,
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I know that's not a good thing.
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I don't think being a perfectionist is actually good for productivity because
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you're trying to get everything right before you start anything,
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having a goal and having a task and doing that project perfectly is different to
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being a perfectionist. Now, if you're a perfectionist,
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things kind of get put off this past year. I've been busy personally,
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so I haven't really been working so much. And in the past six months,
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I've been dealing with my car and rebuilding it and making sure it's ready to
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be on the road.
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And it's been really difficult for me to get back into the saddle to actually
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make these videos. And I've been thinking about doing it differently.
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I've been thinking about making it a vlog style and nothing seemed to work
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because of that perfectionism within me,
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if that's such a word. Um, so I didn't kind of get started.
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I kind of put it off from one day to the next and I, I didn't do it,
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but I kind of woke up one day literally thinking, as I said,
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doing the task is much better than doing it perfectly.
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If you think about all the videos I've made, I don't produce them.
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I don't overproduce them. I don't,
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all the ums and ahs are actually in there. If I make a mistake,
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they're left in there. And I wanted to change that.
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And that I think was the issue with me trying to figure out how to do it rather
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than getting off my ass and actually doing it. I love making videos.
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I love talking a lot.
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And many of you know that I talk a lot and talk too much.
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Maybe and making videos is something that I love doing.
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I can do this every day. And in fact, I will be doing it every day. Um,
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but again, when you're,
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when you stop something and then you try to get that run up to do it,
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that run up that the perfectionist in me kind of took over and try to make
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everything correct. Um,
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before I actually put the camera on started recording.
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So having that task and being productive is way more beneficial than thinking
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that you're going to get it right. First time.
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If you go back, look at my videos, there were,
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I should take them off off the air, but they're so bad,
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but you learn from it. And when you learn from it,
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it's like getting on the bike. Um,
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it's like getting on back on the saddle, getting on a bike and riding again,
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you'll never forget how to ride a bike. And for me,
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it's the same with making videos. You never forget how to make videos.
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So yeah,
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get on with what you need to do and stop thinking about what other people are
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going to be thinking. Anyway, if you've got this video via email,
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reply to that email, let me know what you think.
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It'd be great to get some feedback, your feedback. Um,
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if you're watching this on a website somewhere,
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there'll be a link somewhere to have a chat. Um,
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it'd be good to know how you deal with it as well. Anyway,
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till next time tomorrow, I'll see you then. Ciao.
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Hey Woof!.
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