What Acquired You Right here *Will* Get You There

You might need heard the saying “what obtained you right here WON’T get you there” in terms of rising what you are promoting. However this saying, when interpreted by a perfectionist mind, will seemingly have you ever doing issues that don’t assist what you are promoting develop. I do know as a result of that’s what occurred to me.

Right this moment I’m sharing why what obtained you right here *will* get you to the place you need to go. And why that doesn’t imply sacrificing studying, progress or with the ability to make modifications. I’m additionally sharing an vital story from my business trip that will probably be extremely useful to listen to, particularly as you go into planning and goal-setting for 2026. When you’re a perfectionist and also you’re constructing a enterprise, you need to take heed to this episode immediately. 

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Introduction
Hello and welcome to a different episode of The Perfectionism Venture. A podcast filled with perfectionism recommendation for entrepreneurs. My title is Sam Laura Brown, I assist entrepreneurs launch their perfectionism handbrake, to allow them to get out of their very own approach and construct a satisfying and worthwhile enterprise. I’m the founding father of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Finished group teaching program, which is in any other case referred to as PGSD. And for much more perfectionism recommendation that can assist you with what you are promoting, you may observe me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.

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Okay, so I simply need to do a fast little episode on one thing that I want I had heard earlier in my business trip. And so what I’m going to do on this episode is share what that’s, why it issues. I’m going to share a narrative as properly that’s going to assist reveal all of this and why it’s vital. However that is so vital right now of 12 months, for those who’re eager about your targets for subsequent 12 months, significantly in case you are wanting to attain one thing you haven’t achieved earlier than, then that is going to be tremendous useful. And once more, I simply want somebody had shared this with me and that I had the excellence that I’m going to be supplying you with on this episode.

So that you could be conversant in the saying, what obtained you right here, gained’t get you there. It is a saying that I had heard from totally different individuals within the enterprise house and within the management house, and sort of like in that kind of world and the context it had been shared with me in, whether or not it’s by podcast episodes or content material that I used to be consuming, I don’t suppose anybody ever straight mentioned it to me in like a one on one setting. I believe it was in content material that it was like, when you’ve got this massive aim or you may have a aim that you simply’re making an attempt to attain, you must take a distinct strategy, as a result of what obtained you right here to the place you might be immediately will not be going to get you to the place you need to go. And in addition, totally different variations of this could sort of be like nothing modifications. If nothing modifications that sort of sentiment, and I do know I’ve most likely even mentioned that sort of sentiment earlier than on the podcast, as a result of, sooner or later, as a result of I assumed that, like I assumed this, I heard, okay, what obtained me right here, gained’t get me there.

After which right here’s what my perfectionist mind did with that, what my perfectionist mind did. After which I’m going to inform you the precise context of that saying and the way it grew to become common, as a result of it’s very totally different. Like, once I appeared it up, like, the place did that saying truly come from? I used to be very stunned, as a result of the way in which I used to be eager about it was truly very totally different to the way it was supposed. However for me, when my perfectionist mind heard this saying, what obtained me right here, gained’t get me there, which, okay, that feels affordable. That feels logical. Like, if I need to create totally different outcomes, I have to do various things, then what occurred for me was that I made a decision to vary all the things. And I see this so usually teaching so many perfectionist entrepreneurs inside perfectionist getting shit achieved that when we now have one thing new that feels massive, that we need to obtain.

Our perfectionist mind goes into this mindset of like, I have to do extra, I have to do it larger. I have to do it higher. I have to do it optimized. I have to do it good. And we dismiss the entire sufficiency of what we’re at present doing, we dismiss all of the issues which might be working. And so to provide you an instance of this, on the finish of 2022 I had the thought, what obtained me right here? Received’t get me there. I’ve taken us so far as I can go. Now we have to do issues in another way. I’ve talked about this 12 months earlier than on the podcast, like I’ve talked about 2022 earlier than many occasions, as a result of it’s such a pivotal 12 months for me of studying 2022, 2023 and 2024 as a result of the distinction of 2023 and 2024 in contrast with 2022 was so stark that I needed to sit up and concentrate, and the outcomes that I had in these years was so totally different, and my expertise of enterprise that I had in these years was so totally different that I’ve achieved a lot self examine on it and gotten teaching on it as properly, and actually come to grasp the ideas and emotions I used to be having that created the distinction between these years.

So in 2022 the enterprise made $600,000 I had a $300,000 revenue, and I additionally paid myself, I believe, 100,000 or greater than that. So when that’s considered, there was about perhaps $200,000 of bills, roughly, that is all simply high of my thoughts numbers. After which in 2023 the income was round 300,000 so half and the bills have been 450,000 so much more, greater than double. And I used to be working tougher, and I had a full time advertising and marketing supervisor as properly. That’s a part of why the bills have been a lot extra. After which in 2024 I let the Advertising and marketing Supervisor go. I took again on the advertising and marketing myself, and was simply making an attempt to get the enterprise again to the place the place I wished it to be. And so I’ve checked out, okay, the considered. Like, why did I rent a advertising and marketing supervisor position? Why did I believe I wasn’t the one to be doing the advertising and marketing and to be managing that and to be doing the promoting.

And once I hint it again, I had the considered, like, I’ve gotten us so far as I can go. You’ll be able to actually take heed to a previous episode at the moment once I was speaking in regards to the rent that I used to be desirous to make. I say that within the episode, I say like, we now have massive targets. Precisely, concentrate. Now we have massive targets. I believe the aim that I used to be working in the direction of was having perhaps a $5 million per 12 months enterprise inside three years, or one thing like that. Now we have massive targets. I , I’ve been doing a comparatively good job getting us right here, however like, if we need to obtain that massive aim, I’m not the one to take us there. I’m not the one by way of advertising and marketing who has the flexibility to do this. I’m not clear on the messaging. Regardless that I simply figured, simply spent that complete 12 months determining the messaging for pgsd, I didn’t see the sufficiency of it. So I used to be like, I don’t know the messaging. I don’t know I need somebody to only inform me what the messaging is.

I need somebody to only inform me, like, what to do, as a result of what I’m doing isn’t working, regardless that it was working very well. There was a lot sufficiency in that 12 months. I used to be rested, I used to be linked, I used to be supported, and I had a aim of one million, and my mind, as a result of we ended up making 600,000 however we did a launch in December that wasn’t deliberate, as a result of I made a decision to shut down pgsd on the market for the primary half of 2023 it’s the sort of choice you make when there’s uncertainty in your private life and you’re feeling like you may’t deal with it, and for me, that was having going to be having three youngsters beneath the age of two, as a result of our twins have been due in February. So like, I used to be in anticipation of that uncertainty, and so subconsciously making an attempt to maintain the enterprise smaller and safer and like inside what felt extra manageable, however having this perception that I needed to do issues in another way to attain one thing totally different, meant that I dismissed the entire issues that have been working, and in 2023 I basically discovered a strategy to cease doing the entire issues that have been working, or nearly fully cease them due to this thought.

Then I take into consideration, okay, tracing it again once more, why did I’ve the thought that I’ve taken us so far as I can with the advertising and marketing like, was there a thought that gave beginning to that thought, if you’ll? And a kind of ideas was identical to the philosophy, the concept what obtained you right here gained’t get you there. And if you wish to obtain one thing massive, like it’s a must to do one thing totally different. And the way in which my perfectionist mind interpreted that’s it’s a must to do all the things totally different. And that this pertains to your technique and to your strategy, and it goes into that, like, all or nothing, considering of like, let’s throw the infant out and the bathwater and all of it, and like, let’s begin over once more and begin from scratch. So 2023, there was plenty of time spent with my advertising and marketing supervisor, and we have been like, Okay, let’s determine, like, we’d like a very good basis for progress for the enterprise. I have already got one. We have already got one. However I didn’t see that.

So I used to be like, Hey, we obtained to determine the messaging, we’ve obtained to determine the angle. We’ve obtained to determine this, like, Launch Components. I already had it. I developed it in 2022 it labored very well. However having all of this considering of like, we have to do issues fully in another way, had me cease doing so many issues that have been working. And there was an interview I listened to perhaps two years in the past now, fairly a very long time in the past, and it has caught with me ever since. What this individual mentioned his title is Graham, or in an Australian accent, it could be Graham Stefan, I imagine Graham, Graham Stephan, he’s a YouTuber, and he does, like actual property associated stuff, and he was being interviewed, and it simply struck me when he mentioned it, as a result of that is, that is like the other of the thought that what obtained me right here gained’t get me there. He mentioned, Oh, I simply do the identical factor I’ve all the time been doing, which for him, was making YouTube movies, and now I simply do it in entrance of extra individuals. Entrance of extra individuals.

And once I heard that, I used to be like, oh, so he’s truly doing the identical factor. There’s simply extra of an viewers. And naturally, there are issues that naturally change alongside the way in which, by way of technique and issues like that, however the core of it him recording movies. He’s nonetheless doing that, and now I’m simply doing it in entrance of extra individuals, and he’s benefiting from the compounding of him recording these movies for years after years after years, and having that and in order that for me, simply sort of like opened the door on this concept of like, so I can, I don’t must do each. Something in another way. Like, I don’t must have this fully totally different technique. And now I’ve to, like, launch correctly, no matter meaning. And like, now I’ve to have, like, this funnel, and we now have to do adverts, and we now have to take this fully totally different strategy, and I’ve to have a distinct mentor. And like, all like I used to be making an attempt to do all of the issues totally different as an alternative of the thought, which I now suppose, as an alternative of what obtained me right here, will get me there.

And I do know for those who’re listening to this and you want this podcast, you’re somebody who loves studying and rising and creating, and also you may hear that, and also you may suppose, however I need to change issues, however I need to enhance issues, however I need it to be totally different. And what we need to take a look at with that is just like the nuance of it, of what obtained me right here will get me there. Is basically, like most of what obtained me right here, or just like the core of might be the higher strategy to phrase it, the core of what obtained me right here will get me there. So I appeared up this saying, what obtained me right here, gained’t get me there. I appeared it up as a result of I’d by no means truly Googled or achieved any sort of analysis on like, the place does that saying come from? When the one that initially mentioned that, and I’m certain plenty of individuals have mentioned that in numerous methods and no matter, however it’s generally attributed to there’s a ebook with that title, what obtained me right here gained’t get me there. What Acquired You Right here Received’t Get You There. And so I used to be studying about that ebook. And that ebook will not be saying, fully change your technique. Utterly change all the things you’re doing.

That ebook, What Acquired You Right here Received’t Get You There. Is about saying please to individuals. It’s about like, relationships that you’ve along with your workers. It’s a couple of fully totally different subject to what I assumed it was. I assumed it was going to be basically a ebook on, like, right here’s why you must fully change all the things you’re doing by way of your technique. And it’s not that in any respect, and you’ll Google it in order for you, or ask ChatGPT to inform you about it. That ebook is and that saying truly has nothing to do with what I assumed it needed to do with however my perfectionist mind took that and went, Okay, mainly, cease all the things. So cease doing the advertising and marketing your self. Cease doing the promoting. Begin having another person do it. Begin having a distinct construction for launches. Cease promoting this system that you simply promote. That’s the supply you may have. Begin doing a course as an alternative.

In order that’s after we did the ability planning course that got here out then, as a result of I used to be having this kind of like, it’s not working. And so perhaps that may work. Possibly I can promote that as an alternative of seeing like, all of the sufficiency of in that 12 months, we had 125 individuals join perfectionist getting shit achieved who have been getting unimaginable outcomes and loving this system, and I used to be loving teaching in it like there was simply a lot that was working and the core of that, and the way I used to be considering and feeling that had me do these issues and had me create that end result, that’s what I need to proceed doing. That’s what I need to maintain. I need to maintain that as an alternative of, okay, properly, it obtained me right here, however it gained’t get me there. And so I used to be teaching a one on one consumer, and this got here up that for her, she has achieved her aim for this 12 months of $100,000 which is the primary 12 months she’s ever achieved that huge milestone aim that she achieved, and we have been setting and speaking about setting her aim for subsequent 12 months.

And what was developing for her was like, I have to optimize all the things, all the things and something. I have to do all this optimizing. I must be doing all of those new issues I haven’t achieved earlier than, and I used to be simply saying to her, that’s not the way it works. What obtained you to right here to 100k if we simply have you ever be tremendous clear on the considering and feeling that created that and the actions which might be a mirrored image of that, in order that we will see them in your energy planning, that you simply’re nonetheless recording movies, that you simply’re nonetheless like, connecting and doing the issues that you simply do, you’ll naturally make greater than 100k subsequent 12 months. Like, that’s simply the pure momentum that you simply’re in for those who proceed to do what’s working. I used to be like, I want I had seen so clearly, for me, all of the issues that have been working, not simply by way of actions, however like, what was the considering and feeling for me that was working in 2022 and I speak about this within the final two episodes I did on the annual mindset snapshot and the annual mindset forecast, and we’ve simply achieved that work in pgsd, and I’m obsessed. And people calls are in. Unimaginable.

So for those who’re a PGSDer, you be sure you take heed to these replays and try this work. It’s like my favourite educating that I’ve achieved for the entire of the 12 months. I simply love all the things that was shared. So with that mentioned, we need to have you ever being clear on what’s the core of what obtained me right here, and also you could be like, I’m not right here but, like, I’m not the place I need to be but. And at 600k I wasn’t the place I wished to be but both. Therefore why my perfectionist mind was like, Okay, properly, nothing’s working. Let’s do it throughout as an alternative of like, okay, that is truly a end result I need. And let’s maintain having that end result compound, and me maintain having momentum. However my perfectionist mind was like, Nicely, I haven’t arrived but, so there isn’t but any sufficiency. As an alternative of like, oh my god, a lot is working. Let’s simply maintain having it work.

So the core of what obtained me right here, the core of what obtained me to the place I’m now, the core of what obtained me into that 12 months in 2022 have been issues that I had been doing because the starting. I had, at first, been doing them extra insecurely, extra hesitantly, with extra time wanted to do it. However for me, once I began my enterprise, it began as a weblog, and I simply wished to doc the stuff I used to be studying about, the stuff that I used to be determining, the stuff that I used to be doing. And regardless that I used to be too scared to share my very own opinions, initially, I didn’t even really feel like I had an opinion. I simply share like I assumed this individual’s factor was useful, and I assumed this individual’s factor was useful. After which as I started to develop confidence, and I discovered about perfectionism, and I began doing the issues that I train inside pgsd, to get out of my very own approach and to indicate up extra, and to be comfy being seen and all of that.

That like I’ve simply been doing the core identical factor, which is strictly what I’m doing on this episode proper now, which is simply me having insights and sharing them. That’s basically what I do. I simply now, as Graham Stephan mentioned, I do it in entrance of a much bigger viewers than I did initially, however I’m doing the identical core factor. I’m documenting and sharing my very own considering and my very own mindset shifts and my very own issues that I’m creating, instruments that I’ve developed, like energy planning, to determine issues for myself and sharing that, after which individuals discover it useful. So I share extra different, extra issues like that, and develop extra issues. And now I’ve shoppers as properly. I’ve had for a few years now, however I didn’t initially, for the primary 5 – 6 years of my enterprise, I didn’t have any shoppers. I didn’t promote something in any respect for the primary three years like so it was simply actually me documenting stuff. However the core of what I do that may get me there, that may get me to the place I need to go, is me displaying up and sharing stuff like this.

That’s the core factor. Me teaching me teaching myself. Earlier than I even had a phrase for that, me teaching myself, me teaching others, sharing these insights right here on the podcast, as a result of that’s the format I need to I may do it in a distinct format. It’s not about like podcasting works, or YouTube works or no matter. It’s identical to, What Works is me being linked. What Works is me sharing insights that resonate so deeply that you simply’re like, Nicely, if she’s figured that out, then I undoubtedly need to have, I undoubtedly need to work along with her and have her information me to determine me how I can truly get out of my very own approach, and why I’m getting in my very own approach, and how one can launch my perfectionism handbrake, as a result of she’s achieved it, and he or she thinks equally to me.

So if she’s achieved it, then perhaps I can do it, and I need her steering. That’s how I constructed my enterprise. However then in 2023 as a result of I didn’t see the sufficiency of that, I finished recording new episodes. I finished doing plenty of teaching in pgsd. We had pgsd coaches. Our pgscs have been loving them like so that they’re nonetheless getting outcomes. However I then wasn’t linked to the teaching, to the ability of teaching, to listening to all of the questions that PGSDers ask on a training name that then spark for me a chunk of content material like this, I didn’t have that spark like a key exercise for Spark for me and I train spark content material in pgsd, a key exercise, a key spark creation exercise for me is teaching, my teaching in pgsd, teaching, my one on ones, getting coached myself, my very own self, teaching that for me actually spark a lot that I need to share, however I wasn’t doing that.

I used to be so busy making an attempt to determine how one can be a very good CEO, how one can be a greater chief, how one can have a funnel, like all these different issues, as an alternative of the core, the core, what obtained me? What obtained me there and we’ll get would have gotten me additional was persevering with to indicate up and share stuff in the way in which that I naturally do it, and the pure approach I do it has developed as I’ve modified my considering and as I’ve developed new abilities and all of that, I’m capable of do it in a approach now that I wasn’t capable of do it earlier than. But it surely isn’t that totally different to my very first podcast episodes, and so I simply wished to articulate this message on this approach. I’ve talked about it in different contexts and from totally different angles, however I’m simply going to determine as some ways as I can to say it till it lands, and till you’re like, I get it now, after we’re on this considering that what obtained me right here gained’t get me there.

We make choices which have us cease doing what’s working and we resolve to do one thing fully new, or make massive modifications abruptly. So for instance, this morning, on the planning name that we did in pgsd for 2026 I used to be teaching certainly one of our PGSDers, and we have been going by the train and setting her aim and issues like that. And what got here up was that she needs to have a location unbiased enterprise mannequin. And she or he has made $40,000 in 2025 and he or she needs to make $60,000 in 2026 and that looks like an enormous stretch for her. And so after we checked out it, that she was in such a rush to attempt to get particularly to the situation independence, that it was having her suppose, like, I have to do issues fully in another way. As an alternative of that is what I mentioned to her, of like, we truly need to have, you may have this aim arrange in a approach so you may proceed to make income in the way in which you know the way to make income.

After which over the 12 months, you may develop out, just like the bits that can help you have location independence. After which you may shift in. To that new enterprise mannequin, as an alternative of simply making an attempt to cease your present enterprise mannequin chilly turkey. And now count on your self to haven’t solely a brand new enterprise mannequin, but in addition extra income than you’ve ever made earlier than, and have it’s from a brand new enterprise mannequin. That’s the sort of choice that we make after we’re swimming round within the sea of considering that’s what obtained me right here. Received’t get me there as an alternative of, let’s maintain doing what’s working, and if we would like one thing else to be working as an alternative, then we try this factor whereas persevering with to do what’s working, after which we make a transition throughout. However we don’t need to, like, go into this. I have to do it larger, higher, optimize, fully change all the things. I would like a brand new system. I would like a brand new rent. I would like, like our perfectionist mind loves that.

There’s a lot hope and optimism that comes from I’m going to do all the things new. I’m going to have a do over. I’m going to lastly get it proper this time. I’m going to lastly do it correctly as an alternative of and I used to be speaking about this inside pgsd after we did the annual mindset snapshot name to take a look at like what’s been your most important story, your most important thought and feeling for 2025. Relating to sufficiency, we have to observe, as a muscle, with the ability to see what’s working, Having the ability to see what’s ample. The definition of ample is to fulfill the necessity. Our perfectionist mind goes into, Oh, if I’m doing one thing sufficiently, I’m doing it sub par. I’m doing the naked minimal, as an alternative of seeing like, the sensible factor to do is to do one thing sufficiently, so you may transfer on to one thing else and try this sufficiently.

Our perfectionist mind is like, I have to do that completely and flawlessly, and if meaning doing all the things else fully insufficiently, that’s okay, as a result of I actually need to, like, simply attempt to quiet the voice in my mind that’s yelling at me that this isn’t adequate. And to attempt to try this, I’m going to only give attention to this till I can get it excellent. Or if I can’t try this, if that’s too overwhelming, then I’m simply going to disconnect. I’m not going to do it in any respect. I’m going to have one other new, thrilling concept. I’m going to give attention to one thing else. I’m going to change enterprise concept. I’m going to change area of interest. I’m going to change one thing to get out of the discomfort of feeling like I can’t do that in addition to I need to do it, and perhaps I gained’t be capable of do it, and perhaps individuals gained’t prefer it, and perhaps individuals gained’t like me. Our perfectionist mind loves going into this concept of, I have to do all the things optimally. That’s the naked minimal. Optimum is the naked minimal.

And this concept of, if I need to create a brand new end result, I’ve to do issues fully in another way than earlier than. So I’ll wrap up by saying, in case you are simply pay attention to this, in case you are in 2026 having a plan that includes you doing an entire 180 or doing plenty of new issues, it’s to not say you may’t do new issues, however you need to maintain your eye on what are the issues which might be working, even when I’m not on the outcomes I need to have but, what are the issues which might be working and what do I have to put in place? And energy planning makes this really easy to only see tremendous clearly. What do I have to put in place to guarantee that whereas I’ve some give attention to the brand new factor that I’m protecting my eye on the core factor that’s truly creating the outcomes. So I can proceed doing that whereas I develop out the brand new factor.

As an alternative of I’m going to cease the present factor referred to as Turkey, or I’m going to complement it with one thing that’s inadequate and swap over to one thing else. So for me, for instance, we nonetheless launch podcast episodes in 2023 however a part of what works for me is podcast episodes is partly how I synthesize stuff. You’ll be able to most likely inform that, however I’ve so many concepts, and a lot of the mental property I create comes from me recording episodes. So regardless that there was no quick adverse affect from it, I wasn’t additional creating my physique of labor throughout that point, as a result of podcasting and having new podcast episodes, and that is why we’re doing two episodes per week in 2026 and so they’re all going to be new episodes. They’re not going to be republished ones from the podcast. Do I like? I like, I like, I like that this 12 months I did share plenty of better of the podcast episodes, as a result of there are such a lot of to select from, in order that plenty of those that I believe are actually core and important. You’ll be able to simply scroll again lately and discover them.

However what I actually need to do in 2026 is proceed creating my physique of labor, my concepts that I’ve, and the way I articulate them, and put them into instruments for you and frameworks for you to have the ability to use, whether or not you’re a podcast listener, whether or not you’re inside perfectionist getting shit achieved that I’m capable of proceed creating my work. And that comes from teaching, self teaching, after which having that exit in a podcast episode, and likewise creating instruments and issues that I share inside perfectionists, getting shit achieved as properly. That’s a key a part of it. So regardless that it’s okay, it’s greater than okay, and it’s, in lots of circumstances, fully ample to share a previous podcast episode. What wasn’t ample was for me to basically have just about three years of me not likely recording new podcast episodes, and the affect that has had by myself concepts, by myself connection to my work, by myself connection to the outcomes that I’m creating for myself, and all of the various things that that has had a compound impact that has meant that I now am needing to, like, get well issues.

I’m going to do an episode on my reflection of the 12 months, like what my annual mindset, mindset snapshot was for 2025 so as to hear a bit extra about this, however with the ability to see for me how this considering of what obtained me right here gained’t get me there has had such a ripple impact, such a compound impact in my enterprise that had me make choices. From that considering that I had, I then made choices which have had massive impacts on my enterprise, the way it operates, how supported I’m within the enterprise, so many alternative sides of it, the income. And now I’m within the interval the place I can see that so clearly, and now I’m returning to the considering and feeling that creates the outcomes that I need, from a spot of actually now understanding the sufficiency of it and likewise having the endurance that that then must construct momentum once more and compound. And simply because I’ve that consciousness doesn’t imply I click on my fingers, and in a single day, all the things has modified.

There’s a constructing of momentum course of, and I’ve been in that course of for a very long time, and I’m going to maintain being in that course of for so long as I must be. I’m not in a rush. I’m not in a rush to attempt to be there already. That is what I like being within the strategy of it, being within the private improvement of it, being within the journey of constructing my enterprise, having it to share and to doc and all of the insights and all of the issues like that, that it’s like having that after we’re on this mindset of what obtained me right here gained’t get me there. We’re usually on this rush to be there, on this rush to vary issues on this rush to attempt to be totally different, and we expect being there, we’re going to really feel so a lot better, we’re going to really feel extra peaceable, we’re going to really feel calmer. We’re lastly going to really feel profitable as an alternative of I’m truly going to really feel profitable now and generate that for myself now, and really feel linked now and use that as a gasoline to attain my targets.

So that’s the place I’m at with this thought, and there’s no blame for anybody sharing the considered what obtained me right here gained’t get me there. I believe it’s simply so useful to take a look at what’s that thought? If there’s something like that, it could be that or one thing totally different that like your mind has latched onto, and you end up repeating it as a mantra, if you’ll. They’re like, wait, who truly mentioned that? And was that designed for somebody at my degree of enterprise and in my circumstance? Actually good to test that out, as a result of if I do know it could be nice recommendation for somebody in a distinct scenario, however you hadn’t realized that you simply simply thought, and we frequently do that with a perfectionist all or nothing mind. All the recommendation is on the market on enterprise is for me, as an alternative of truly, actually, when everybody creates issues for a enterprise proprietor, content material, for instance, they’re eager about a particular sort of enterprise proprietor at a particular stage of enterprise, with a particular downside that they’re fixing at that particular time limit.

So it’s actually vital to discern, is that this for somebody in my stage of enterprise and in my circumstance, and to have the ability to discern and to begin to take a look at, okay, if I’ve this considered what obtained me right here, gained’t get me there, for instance, how does that present up? Like? How do I really feel once I suppose that thought for me, I really feel like that thought brings up this type of, like, hopeful feeling of like I get to have a do over like, I get to, like, do fully new issues and get out of feeling like I’m failing. However then once I play that out by way of actions, it has me not do the issues that work and attempt to do new issues that clearly will take time to begin working. So then I expertise failure, after which my perfectionist mind makes that imply I’m not adequate, after which once I’m feeling not adequate, then it’s a lot tougher to succeed. So simply taking a look at like every of these little unconscious mantras that we undertake to begin to have some crucial eager about it to discern is that this meant for somebody at my stage of enterprise, in my circumstance, with the targets that I’ve within the issues that I’m fixing, and to only play out okay, if that is what I’m considering, How do I really feel once I suppose that? As a result of it could be a constructive feeling, it could be excited, could be hopeful, could be optimistic. Most likely is my guess. We are typically like, Oh, that is thrilling.

However then how does that present up in your actions? Does that have you ever maintain doing what’s working after which additionally determine one thing else on the aspect and get that working in transit and transition throughout, or get what’s working working much more? Or does it have you ever deserted ship and do a 180 and begin from scratch, and regardless that our perfectionist mind loves that feeling of ranging from scratch, as a result of we really feel like now I can simply be within the hope in regards to the future being good, we don’t need to begin from scratch, and it’s not going to assist. You’ll find yourself feeling like extra of a failure for those who maintain ranging from scratch repeatedly. In order that’s the place I’m going to go away this episode. I hope it’s been actually useful, I simply want somebody had articulated for me what thought could be extra useful for my perfectionist mind than what obtained me right here gained’t get me there, and that’s the core of what obtained you right here will get you there, and also you’re simply going to be doing a fairly comparable factor in entrance of extra individuals or with extra clients, for instance, it’s to not say issues gained’t change. I do know you may hear and suppose, Oh, I’m totally different, however the core of it, the essence of it, goes to proceed, goes to be the factor that continues to work.

You simply haven’t realized but what that core is and that it’s working, since you’re targeted on all of the stuff you’re not doing, proper? So I hope that helps. I hope that’s actually, actually useful to listen to. And I’m simply considering, do I’ve anything to say earlier than I wrap up this episode? I don’t suppose I do. And I’m actually excited for the doing two episodes per week and sharing extra episodes like this. I’m going to be sharing extra behind the scenes episodes, once more, sharing my numbers, my considering, like what’s occurring behind the scenes, as a result of I do know you guys love these episodes a lot, and I like creating these episodes. And in addition, we’ll be educating ideas and instruments and all of the various things as properly.

So for those who aren’t subscribed, be sure you subscribe to the podcast so New episodes come up in your feed, and we’re doing a gap for perfectionist getting shit achieved. PGSD, which is my teaching program for perfectionist entrepreneurs. We’re doing a gap on the thirtieth of January for one week solely. So for those who aren’t but on the pgsd waitlist, you need to be on it. That’s going to inform you extra about this system, and also you’re going to make such as you’re going to have the ability to get all of the updates about it opening, so that you simply don’t miss the opening, as a result of we’re solely open for per week, after which we gained’t be open once more until later within the 12 months. So that you need to be inside. You need to be in there. So samlaubrown.com/pgsd, is the place you may go to seek out out extra about this system and likewise join the wait listing as properly. I’ll go away this there. I hope you’re having an attractive day. I’ll speak to you within the subsequent episode.

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