"Perfection" Is A Dirty Word!
Do you have to make everything just so, before you can show it to the world? Well then this is the post for you, because perfectionism is crippling your productivity and your business. Below, I'm going to tell you about how it almost completely detailed my business before it even started and how I got past it.
When I first started my website, I wanted it to be absolutely perfect! I spent weeks on end fussing over color combinations, logo creation, font choices, layout… and on and on!
The first product didn't go live on my website for a full month. I would make adjustment after adjustment after adjustment trying to get it absolutely perfect. Then I'd review it and start over because some part of it didn't look JUST RIGHT!
Today in Part 3, I wanted to address one of the most frequently asked questions I see… "How do I know what to charge for my products or services?"
Knowing what value to place on your products can be excruciating for someone who'd still determining their place as an entrepreneur. You might feel if you set your pricing too high, you'll be driving away potential customers. But if you set your prices too low, you're destroying any real profit you might make.
Am I Enough? No Degree… No Problem!
In an earlier post, I talked about the question that burns so intensely in so many of our minds… "Am I enough?" And I covered the topic of being a recovering people pleaser. If you missed part 1, make sure you go back and check it out HERE.
Well let me start by saying once again YOU ARE ENOUGH! Exactly who you are right now, is exactly who you're supposed to be.
Can you do better? We all can. And the way we do better is to go ahead, take those leaps, make those mistakes and learn from them. Go forward knowing more, stronger than we were before.
If you do, you're certainly not alone. Let's talk to you about the things that may cause you to ask yourself the question "Am I Enough?" and how to address them so they don't end up holding you back.
As a female entrepreneur I have a bit of a stigma with this topic and if you're anything like me you're probably in the same boat. I affectionately refer to myself as a "Recovering People Pleaser".
Being a people pleaser usually is accompanied by an overwhelming feeling of guilt, if your compelled to make everyone happy at the same time. And that guilt can feel like it's massively amplified when you try to overcome this compulsion.
How to Decide You Want to Be Your Own Boss?
As a little kid I was always goofing around with lots of different little "businesses". I had my toy cash register, my Snoopy Snow Cone Machine, my chalk board and desk that I would be the "teacher" to my poor younger cousin, who had little, to no say in the game of choice… And at every garage sale my parent's held, I was making up batches of brownies, cupcakes or cookies, that I could sell too on my own little table.
I was always trying out new ways to do something unique to make money on the side and to have something that no one else had going on. Now that I think about it, I guess those were my first ventures into entrepreneurialism.
Did you ever wonder what makes someone decide to start their own company? What would make someone decide to take the plunge from employee to employer?