Lotus.life — Day 7: Beating Procrastination and Overwhelm
This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 7
“No perfectionist was ever capable of producing something amazing because they didn’t start.” This can basically be construed as ‘imperfection is better than no action.’
Right, so thats the theme for today. Acknowledging and getting over that crappy hurdle of procrastination and overwhelm. I’m guilty of the big ‘P’ and occassionally suffer from the daunting ‘O’. My ‘website’ for example, is an example of the first quote. It’s been ‘in progress’ for 18 months now because I hadn’t worked out how to make my products sound attractive enough for the market, and how to explain it in the simplest form so potential customers could understand the principle behind it. Because of this, I’ve relied on word of mouth and recommendations to get gigs. I run workshops and create content for individuals and groups to aid communication. MASSIVE area for a start. Then I have to bring in the fact that I apply improv to the workshops/programmes to help clients really explore new ways to get excellent results and to come out of their comfort zones. “Improv? What? In Japan, we don’t understand”. (Please see Blog 4 — My Superpowers. In the words of my mother “You don’t make anything easy for yourself, do you, Christie?”. No dear mother, I don’t)
To be fair, there is a story to this. I built a site with Strikingly, it wasn’t perfect but it’s OK, then changed my business name, reviewed all of my tech services and brought on Office 365, discovered Hover and how helpful it is, started and then cancelled Wordpress (as it’s the most unintuitive platform ever and doesn’t do what I want it too), exasperated my computer doctor with yet another decision change (he needs to get used to that, I’m afraid), so now I’m heading to Squarespace. (“Christie, whaaaat?!?”. I know, mother, I know.)
So. My website. I’m going to produce an imperfect website, link up the domain name, launch it, and then……….. feel like the ‘most amazing person in the world ever’.
PLEDGE ALERT………I will spend a minimum of 25mins every day on this action for the next 30 days. The challenge is 5mins but I’ll save that challenge for when the website is up.
This blog post has been brought to you today by an exorbitant amount of apostrophes and quotation marks.
Previous posts in this challenge:
Day 1: What’s holding me back?
Day 4: What are my Superpowers?
