It’s okay to fail
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Hi,
Has perfectionism and the need to “get it right” held you back from getting started and achieving your 2019 goals?
This coaching is for you.
Last week, Disney released their long awaited Disney Plus streaming app to the public.
Despite being a $150 billion dollar company with the best designers and developers in the world… the launch was still a big misfire.
App failures…
An inability to log in…
Content disappearing from the library…
The Chicago Tribune renamed the app “Disney Minus.”
Yet, the app still attracted 10 million new users per day and the Disney stock still went up despite the challenges.
Customers didn’t abandon Disney because they created something that added value to their lives.
Here’s the lesson.
The thing you want to launch—a new career, product, business, or relationship, is going to encounter setbacks at the start.
It’s just part of the process. If Disney can’t avoid it, neither can you and I.
But it’s not a reason to procrastinate and hide your idea from the world.
Reid Hoffman, the CEO of LinkedIn, once said that “If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you waited too late to launch.”
Yet, most of us have been conditioned since childhood that making mistakes is “wrong.” One of my clients was once reprimanded by his mother for bringing home less than a Straight-A report card, admonishing him by saying “We don’t get B’s in this house.”
However, the best in class sales people close only 30% of sales.
The top baseball players in the world get on base about 33% of the time.
They literally “failed” their way to the very top of their professions.
If you want to create Amplified growth and success in 2020, you have to ditch your honor roll mentality. You have to understand mistakes are part of the process and actually help you move forward. You have to be willing to take messy, scary, imperfect action that makes your nervous system freak out.
Victory is on the other side.
I will be right here supporting you the whole way.
NOW OVER TO YOU.
What would you have created this year if perfectionism didn’t hold you back? Would you have changed careers? Started a new business? Written the book you’ve dreamed about? Put yourself out there for love? Reply to this email and let me know. I will personally respond to send support!
Big love,
Dan
P.S. Keep an eye on your inbox this week for information on how you can end perfectionism for good and make 2020 a massive year of growth.