It’s Ok, To Be Ok, With Good Enough

Your first blog post may not be very good.

Your first social media post may not be very good.

Your first podcast may not be very good.

A new lesson with a new technology tool that you’re trying for the first time with students, may have some problems initially and not be very good.

Your first speech most likely won’t be very good.

Your first video may be shaky and have bad audio and just not be very good.

The first webinar you host may go over time and you don’t get through all of your slides and it just may not be very good.

The first keynote that you get paid for, may not be very good.

But the super important thing to remember with all of this.

Where you start, is not where you end up.

You’re not going to be perfect the very first time.

You’re not even probably going to be good the very first time. 

But please remember. It’s not forever.

Everything that you do doesn’t need to be perfect.

Anytime.

All the time.

Some of the time.

And especially just to get started. 

As you go and progress, it’s going to get better. You’re going to get more comfortable. 

If you never start, you’re never going to learn about the new thing. I really feel that most people have the deepest learning, when they’re doing. Not when they’re waiting for the perfect moment to start. Not when they feel it’s just about going to be perfect. 

Just think about all the missed learning opportunities, if you don’t start. And you wait for perfection.

Let’s say you’ve been thinking about starting a podcast, or a blog or a business that you can run as a side hustle.

You have the idea. And some ideas of course will take more time, energy or even money to get off the ground. But most of the ideas, to just get started, you can do it for free.

Starting a podcast = free.

Starting a blog = free.

Starting a side hustle business where you walk dogs = free.

The longer you wait, the longer it takes to get started. It’s such a super simple mindset. 

The longer you wait, the longer it takes to get started.

Your first podcast or blog or digital announcement about your new dog walking side hustle business, may not be very good.

The audio on the podcast won’t be super crystal clear. You may not even think about recording a proper intro and outro. And it doesn’t matter.

The margins and color and font type on your first blog post may look kind of like the beginning of the internet, and it’s ok, because it’s your first post and you’re just getting started. 

And if you make a digital flier to walk some dogs and earn some side hustle cash, you may forget to put in some details. 

But you can always add and fix and change and iterate and beautify and clean up and enhance and and and and and and - and nobody is going to notice that when you started, it wasn’t perfect. 

Where you start, is not where you end up.

Google - in a trailer on the Stanford campus.

Harley Davidson - in a small shed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Facebook - in a Harvard dorm room.

Mattel - in a garage in 1945 in Southern California

If you never start, you’re never going to know what’s possible.

It’s Ok, To Be Ok, With Good Enough.