Fashion Business Owner Musings: Things Will Never Be Perfect. Who Cares?

Do you wait for things to be perfect?

Starting a blog, launching a website, trying a new marketing idea… if the circumstances aren’t exactly how we imagine them to be (the number of hours available, the design, the absolute proof that it will work), then we just “hold off for now.”

We stop ourselves. We wait for the situation to be improved, we plan to do it when the time is right, we tell ourselves that it will be better when…

It’s easier to do it this way (not to do it at all) than to do things before we’re ready. But that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

Here’s the secret:

Perfect never happens.

Nothing is perfect. There is no perfect time. No perfect circumstance. No one has it fully together. No one has checked off every box on their task list. No one is ever really ready. No one is ever really done.

Why do you feel like you need to be?!

It took me a little while to realize this for myself.  But when I did, I realized that everything is a work in progress and that’s OK.

You don’t need to be perfect in order to move forward.

The dangerous part about waiting for “perfect” is that time passes by whether we like it or not. And if we keep waiting, we’re going to wake up one day and realize we’ve been “holding off” for most of our lives.

“Let’s do what we can, with what we’ve got, and stop worrying about perfection.”

That’s the best piece of quotable Instagram advice I’ve seen lately.

Take it to heart, remember that you’re doing awesome things, and never be so focused on perfection that you are too fearful to take a step forward.