Do You Fight This Tendency Like I Do?
I do. I'm guilty of this and I fight it pretty much constantly. I'm not sure how or why it creeps in, but it seems there's almost an imperative need or a compulsion to make things harder than they have to be. Have you noticed this in your own business?
Just a quick example...
I often get ideas for new info products or coaching courses late at night, usually just before I drift off to sleep. If I'm not too far gone, I'll quickly jot the basic idea down in a notepad I keep on the little table next to our bed. The fact that it's a brand new idea and that I'm really tired means I end up writing something really basic and short on that notepad.
The "fun" starts the next day when I wake up and read what I jotted down. Often, the basic idea is elegantly simple and straightforward, but probably 9 times out of 10 I end up gunking it all up with tangents and add-ons and all kinds of extraneous tweaks. ARGH! It's very frustrating because the first idea is so simple and - this is the really important part - totally useful in that basic form. And yet, I still manage to sabotage it by what almost always turns out to be unnecessary tinkering.
Almost invariably, I find that when I'm able to fend off the compulsion to monkey around with a basic idea and actually take action, the results are fantastic. You'd think that would reinforce what I know to be true, but weirdly I still find myself going back down the same time-wasting path with the very next new idea. I've been in this game a long time now and this has always been a problem, so I'm just about resolved to accepting it as a quirk and finding ways to work around it.
Any advice from those who have conquered this would be very much appreciated. I know I'm leaving money on the table because this definitely makes me a lot less productive.
I envy those of you who read this and can't relate. You're lucky! :rolleyes:
John
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