Episode 20: How to Get Past Perfectionism Procrastination

Mar 08, 2020

Why you have to check out today’s podcast:

How the fear of failure and fear of being judged affects your business
How that “mean girl” in your head affects your self-worth and how to overcome it
Why failing can also mean that you’re learning

Summary

In our journey reaching our business goals, have you felt as if you’ll never get there? We hold ourselves back, felt paralyzed, and with little or no progress at all. Those things happen when perfectionism procrastination sets in our minds. We get so worried about getting perfect and getting everything right that it stops our business growth which could also impact other people’s lives. This episode talks about dealing with the more profound reasons that hinder our highest potential as beauty business owners. Tune in to this episode as I give you real talk on failing and learning, on dealing with fears and overcoming it, and on changing and impacting not only your life but the lives of many others.

“The story you tell yourself will control you."

- April Meese

Topics Covered:

02:30 – How perfectionism procrastination affects your beauty business

03:40 – Announcing the Boosting the Beauty Business Bottomline workshop and the reopening of the Elevate program

04:20 – Having shame around when goals are not reached and comparing ourselves with others

06:32 – The thing that you should be doing that will move your business forward

08:41 – Fear of failure and fear of being judged

11:17 – Beating ourselves up with that “mean girl” in our head

11:38 – How the stories you tell yourself control you

13:12 – Conquering that “mean girl” voice

15:38 – Why failing means that you’re also learning

16:24 – Failing doesn’t define who you are

17:37 – Asking yourself if the negative thoughts will help you reach your goals and let those thoughts go

18:52 – How and when the “not feeling good enough” starts

19:59 – Why it’s important to take baby steps to get yourself to your goals

21:26 – Reminders on the upcoming Boosting the Beauty Business Bottomline mini-workshops and Elevate masterclass program

Key Takeaways:

“As a beauty business professional, we can impact lives. We change lives. We help people have more confidence. We help them have more time in their day, overall improve their quality of life. And so, if you're not playing full out because of your fear of it not being perfect and you're not able to reach people because you're afraid of how you might be judged, then that has a ripple effect.” – April Meese

“Take baby steps because what happens is when you get those baby steps, you have those micro wins. And that momentum is going to carry you forward.” – April Meese

“When you add the word “yet”, that's going to start to change things.” – April Meese

“If you are holding yourself back because of your fear of being judged, people are going to judge either way. Right, wrong or indifferent. People are going to judge them. So, know that the judgment is going to happen and so we can't get past it. You might as well take those baby steps to start putting yourself out there. And again, it doesn't have to be perfect. You have to get started to get better. So, write down on a piece of how can I take small steps." – April Meese

“Not only the choices you make, but the choices that you don't make and what you fail to do will also follow you." – April Meese

“If you fail, you learn." – April Meese

“Just because you failed, it doesn't define you. You're not a failure. It's just that that thing didn't work out. The thing you tried didn't work out this time. It's not that you're a failure. It's just that that thing doesn't define you. It doesn't label you. So, change your thoughts around that." – April Meese

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Episode 20: How to Get Past Perfectionism Procrastination

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