Supercharge Your Productivity

As an entrepreneur, you likely put a lot of pressure on yourself to produce in order to succeed.

In fact, you might put too much pressure on yourself. You might feel like you need to have everything just right.

You may complete a certain product or interview or email, and then not put it out into the world because it’s not “perfect.”

Perfectionism rears its head and stops you from actually making progress. In some cases, you want something so bad that you become too intense—about you set yourself up to fail.

Perfectionism causes procrastination.

By managing your mind, though, you can halt perfectionism in its tracks—and you can get more done.

It’s all about the mental game!

All of HeartCore’s programming provides everyone the same formula. Some of them succeed wildly, creating six figures in a matter of months. Others don’t—and then they get mad they’re not getting the results they expect.

Why do members of the same group, consuming the same information, get different results?

Because of how they’re playing the mental game.

If you want to be among the entrepreneurs who get great results, you’ve got to master your mental game.

Here are three steps to overcoming perfectionism, so you can keep moving forward toward your goal.

Step 1. Cut the fat.

Look for places in your day that you’re obsessing or putting too many things on your plate to create a result you want—but where you’re actually causing yourself to go backward.

Here’s an example from a recent Coffee with Shanda:

Shanda Sumpter, HeartCore Business’s Queen Visionary, goes live every weekday at 6 a.m. for Coffee with Shanda—20-minute livestreams where she shares advice about growing your business.

On this particular day, Shanda had scheduled a full content day, where she’d be producing video content all day long. She had a team of stylists coming in at 7 a.m.—well after Coffee with Shanda—to get her made up and ready for video production.

So instead of rushing to get made up before Coffee with Shanda—which would have caused her stress and put something extra on her plate on that very busy day—she just threw her hair in a ponytail and did the show without makeup.

In the past, she would have stressed overlooking perfect. But now, she realizes that getting ready twice is simply a form of perfectionism and one that would cause her undue stress.

So she “cut the fat” and instead focused on delivering awesome information and content.

Ask yourself whether you’re pushing too hard in a way that is causing you to reverse.

The busier you are, the more things fall through the cracks. So cutting out those extra tasks (the ones that don’t bring you closer to your desires) is beneficial. It allows you to focus—and spend your resources—on what’s truly important.

When your calendar is not filled to the max, then you have more bandwidth to show up and give.

Which brings us to the next two steps …