‘Are you sure this is the right way?’ 

‘This doesn’t look familiar.’

I’m sure like me you’ve uttered those words on countless journey’s in the car or walking around a city. 

We associate the familiar with the right way. However does that stack up when it comes to the journey on route to seeing our vision become a reality?

When what you meet on route to your dream doesn’t match up with expectation the result can be confusion. 

Over the past several years both me and Leanne would have set planning days. A planning day sounds like it should be fun, like it should be about blue sky thinking and dreaming up new ideas, but for us it was painful. 

Why?

We both carried convictions but combined they felt like a contradiction and incompatible. So did one of us have it wrong? Based on our experience only one of us could be right. However, what was happening was the formation of a third way. A third way is an innovative new route that isn’t based on what we’ve seen but is birthed out of a t...

High achievers often want everything perfect first time. John Maxwell calls it the ‘perfection gap’. This reduces our willingness to take risks and often gives way to procrastination.  

Why do I seek perfection?

For me perfection is a self-imposed expectation that feeds an insatiable desire for validation. ‘Unless I hit perfection, then it's not good enough!’ This is usually linked to my own perception of self worth. I tie my self-worth to the result. 

I believe in excellence as a value which is giving my very best, but this is different from perfection.

Don't let perfection ruin your future...

The future dream we carry insists we embrace experimentation if we are to make our highest and best contribution!

If we impose perfection as the standard on everything that we do, then we reduce the space for creativity. Creativity encourages a healthy relationship with failure but failure is the enemy of the perfectionist!

In my latest High Performance Disciple podcast I unpack why we ne...