Personal note: this is something I've been massively struggling with the last few days and I needed to write a post as a kind of therapy. Hang in there with me. Perfectionism is a funny thing. It's supposed to be regaled and with words like "craft", "art" and "perfection." It also causes more people to not do s**t than any other thing I can think of. Refining and editing your work has value, but perfectionism is a cancer and it will kill your work if ...
Dangerous Inaction
Last Thursday was a long day for me. I had networking events all day and was gone from 7am to 11pm or so. I came home exhausted and just wanted to sleep. I sat down at my computer and burned some time catching up on emails, facebook and twitter. I knew I needed to work out and at least get a short run in, but I kept putting it off and putting it off. I told myself I would do it in 5 minutes, then another 5 minutes, then another 5 minutes. Pretty soon ...