Progress over Perfection

Perfection will absolutely destroy you.

It’s a mirage. It doesn’t exist and if I’m being honest, you should completely forget about making it a reality.

I say that not for you to stop pursuing greatness. DONT EVER STOP THAT.

The point I’m making here is that if you’re so caught up trying to make things perfect, you’re going to overlook the thing that actually matter— moving the needle.

Over time the work that we do becomes closer to perfect, but it has to start somewhere.

It’s going to messy and that WILL be ok. I promise.

But you HAVE to start in that mess, without everything figured out in order to get far enough down the road to ACTUALLY produce a product worthy of success.

Getting that monologue out of the way, I’ll share a real life example of this battle with perfection vs. just moving the needle forward

I’ve talked about this here before, but we are building home service businesses where we handle the whole ecosystem of the business and hire subcontractors to do the work.

It’s a beautiful model, but we are definitely still trying to figure it all out. Specifically with our sub contractors.

They aren’t employees of ours and generally they have their own jobs outside of what we give them, but when we give them a job— it’s already booked and ready to go. We NEED them to perform.

Everything in the ecosystem that we have is set up and operational, but it’s only as good as the subs.

The issue we have right now is our subs going dark on us. We have some that we’ve sent leads to and need communication back about and crickets…

We’ve addressed this by laying out a flow for each of the subs so that they could understand the process clearly.

Some guys just don’t want to play ball. They want to do it their way.

And that’s ok.

But if I was obsessed with perfection, I’d be a ball of stress.

The reason we build this model this way is so that if we have to drop a sub, we can easily plug another right in.

The more that we iterate with everything here, the better we’ll get.

As we continue down this path, we make mistakes that we didn’t know existed. Then we adjust and continue.

Progress over perfection