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Reflections on imperfection – and my 100th article

By | David Klaasen | Helping You Create Clarity, Inspire Your People & Drive Performance | Retain your best people | Changing Management Mindsets and Behaviour | Practical Behaviour Analytics

Perfection is a killer. Or should I say ‘seeking’ perfection is a killer. There are many stories of people who try to perfect their ideas, writing, product or service before putting them out there and in doing so miss the opportunities to sell or improve and change the lives of others.

Understanding the fear

But I fully understand the fear of putting yourself and your thoughts out there and wanting things to be perfect. It’s a simple defence mechanism to avoid uncomfortable feedback. Back in 2005 just 12 months after starting Inspired Working I was discussing my business with my coach and he suggested that I set up a mechanism to ‘keep in touch’ with the people in my various business networks; current, former and potential clients, fellow consultants and the interesting people I meet who I’d like to stay in contact with.

While I was excited about the idea of a newsletter or blog, the thought of actually writing one was a bit daunting for me. When I was still in school I once got a ‘D’ in English because I found spelling very tricky, I was appalled and considered myself an absolute dunce. However, I grew up bi-lingual and having two languages constantly swirling around my brain was a bit of a mixed blessing. I loved exploring the meaning of words and how many different ways there are to say something, but the rules of spelling and grammar eluded me. I don’t remember learning much about them in school; either because I didn’t pay attention to those lessons or my teacher was not very good at teaching them! So using my intuition for spelling English was not helpful, especially when I had Dutch phonetics and a Dublin accent to rely on.

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