Are you a perfectionist? Here are 4 tips to prepare you to take imperfect action in business.

You know that gut-wrenching feeling you get when you have to jump into something before you feel “ready”? The feeling accompanied by insane levels of imposter syndrome and anxiety that you’ll get “found out”?

I can deeply relate to that feeling — it’s one I spent most of my life actively trying to avoid.

Then I decided to start my own service business.

This is the entrepreneurial log of a recovering Perfectionist. In this article, I share 4 tips I used to shift my perfectionist tendencies, which might help prepare you to start taking imperfect action too.

A shadow side to every gift

When kicking off with a new coaching client, I always ask them to take the free High 5 Strengths test so we can strategise how they can use them more in their business.

But every strength has a shadow side.

One of my own Top 5 Strengths is Learner, and the flipside of being really good at learning? A tendency for extreme perfectionism. Since it’s so easy for me to learn things, I’m tempted to want to know everything and be fully certain of each step before taking a single one, which has held me back from taking action on my ideas for a lot…