Are you one of these people who thinks that “good enough” is never good enough?

Do you put off starting projects until you’ve found the perfect starting point?

Are you a dedicated perfectionist looking for even more perfect ways of achieving success?

If so, look no further.

I hereby present The Perfectionist’s Ultimate, Foolproof Guide to Success:

*** Spend three months planning when to start planning your project. Then take the next seven months to create that plan

*** Only work on projects when you feel 100% inspired, motivated and caffeinated 

*** If you do feel 100% inspired, motivated and caffeinated, make sure the bills are paid, the cat’s fed, your desk is spotless, your inbox is cleared, your carpet’s crumb-free and last week’s notes have been re-read three times before you even think about getting started

*** Don’t try anything until you’ve mastered it in your head first. Once you’ve mastered it in your head, try it in real life. When it doesn’t go perfectly, assume you're not cut out for it. Move on to mastering something else in your head and repeat the same cycle ad infinitum

*** Once you feel like you’ve completed what you’re working on, keep going. At the very least, make sure you’ve run every aspect of your finished project through ChatGPT so you can fix a bunch of problems that didn’t exist until a soulless robot kindly invented them

*** Never publish, send, post, tweet, record, pitch, design, build or share anything until 17 other people have confirmed that it’s perfect. If they do confirm it’s perfect, assume they’re just being polite and keep looking for the imperfections

*** Only compare your finished work to geniuses, prodigies and Nobel Prize Winners

Follow these steps and success is BOUND to show up.

Of course, if you’re feeling worn out with all the perfectionism and you’re wondering if success could come a little easier, there is another way.

The Imperfectionist’s Way.

This is where you try stuff, get your hands dirty, experiment, muck around, create before you’re ready and potentially even commit the ultimate heresy of doing something simply because you enjoy doing that thing.

If you’d like some help making the shift from endless polishing to actually creating and sharing, you might like this:

https://waitinglist.followingfulfilment.com

To fulfilment,

Tom