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Don’t get stopped by perfect
Follow up from Redesigning your career:
I mentioned getting things moving quickly and then tweaking.
The key here is not to worry if its not perfect – not the perfect job or the perfect business idea, etc.
Just start, get moving, and keep moving towards your vision of perfect.
I don’t mean just take any old thing, don’t compromise your values or your goals – but don’t put them off waiting for everything to line up.
Serendipity might not happen. But you make it happen.
Redesigning your career.. don’t do it all at once.
I wrote this up quite some time ago but it seems most of it is just as relevant now.
Inspired by this lifehacker post – Tim Ferriss and Marci Alboher on Redesigning Your Career – featuring Tim Ferris and Marci Alboher talking at Google about of their books.
The main gem I took from listening to them talk is this:
You can pursue multiple careers but don’t try and pursue them all at once.
Drive and build one for a while then move onto the next one… while continuing the previous one. Keep adding incrementally.
In the past I’ve made a few attempts at to do everything at once.
It doesn’t usually work out for me.
Start with one thing – what’s most important or urgent right now
Get it moving quickly and then tweak it
(Hat tip: Ben Young (@bwagy) and Chris Guillebeau for various chats and comments about this)