Is Perfection Killing Your Execution?

Sometimes perfection can have a debilitating effect on execution. Almost disease like, it can arrest your progress.

Perfection is actually an unnatural state. Ironically natures imperfections seem to give it a feeling of perfection.

I’m as guilty as the next person for wanting all the ducks lined up but this is only in some areas. Other areas I don’t seem to care as much and will knowingly let perfection slip. A typical area I like to be meticulous in is Saasu.com application defects. While at the same time I am ok leaving the odd spelling mistake slip through editing on the Saasu website. I guess I adopt a triage mentality to things we work on.

Here are two quotes I think sum up the attitude worth adopting to get over this issue if you find yourself not completing things because they aren’t quite perfect:

“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” General George S Patton

“Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.” Robert Hillyer