Make More Mistakes and Learn
“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.” – Adam Osborn
Are you one of the countless people who needs everything to be ‘Just Right’ before you can get started on something? I know I sure used to be. My problem wasn’t lack of motivation or ability. My biggest issue was paralysis by analysis.
When starting Circle One my blog design had to be perfect, my widgets in place, all the cool new plugins activated, my theme had to be SEO (don’t know why considering I never got around to actually writing but that’s for another post) and I had to know all the latest tricks to drive traffic. I needed all this to be ‘just right’ before I even thought of my content.
To be honest I wasn’t even sure who my audience was.
All that didn’t matter because everything would be top notch when I finally “went live”, right? Hell-to-the-naww!
What I didn’t realize is that all the mistakes that I called myself avoiding by going OCD with my research and development would actually be the biggest mistake that I could be making. Why have a nice fancy design, SEO pages, all the coolest technology if I wasn’t going to have any readers to share with?
See, when I got down to the heart of it I realized that it wasn’t just me wanting to get everything right – I did not want do anything WRONG.
I was afraid of the mistakes that come with learning. It’s an everyday part of life but I did not see it that way, but I learned from the one mistake I did make. I learned that the fastest way for me to become successful was to fail fast and fail often.
Again I say… Fail Fast and Often.
What you gain from your failures is two-fold – you get the momentum going and you learn how not to fail again. This is a learning curve that you can’t beat without essentially ‘setting yourself up for failure’.
No one is perfect. Even those that make the extraordinary seem life second nature understand the multiple failures involved with becoming great. You have to be willing to get going and potentially be wrong in order to recognize what right looks like.
Until tomorrow people. What’s your thoughts?
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