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For When You Say It’s Not Ready Yet …

July 21 Dawn

maybe you don't have to push yourself forwardHave you ever said, ‘Its 95% ready!’, usually referring to the CV, the website being built, the thing being created, the new idea to be launched into the world for others to see?

Is [insert thing of the 95%],

  1. Genuinely not ready?
  2. Ready, but you’re scared?

A 95% grade anywhere else then you are doing pretty darned good.

If you really wanted to slap a mark on yourself or a grade, that’s probably an A? A+? So, what’s really going on with you?

If No 2, do you mean, ‘Its ready. I’m not. There is 5% of my thinking that is holding this whole thing up. In that 5% are all my fears of what could or couldn’t happen. 5% of my thoughts of what if it bombs, fails, looks stupid, is silly, doesn’t work, people judge me, I feel like a fraudster, I’m not as ready as them over there’?

I wish I had a one liner for you to help here, but I don’t. We could talk about permission slips. And nods. But we’ve done that already.

100% is accomplished. It’s done. It’s finished.

95% is a lovely place to be. It gives you 5% to play with.

A grade C (about 70 – 76%), that gives you more room.

If it were someone else’s 95% story you were listening to, you’d probably encourage them to act, yes?

Then allow me to do the same for you, ponder these:

  • Why did you select 95%, rather than something lower or higher? 
  • What would need to happen for your 95% to be seen as good enough right now? 
  • What would take it from 95% to 96%? What are you grading yourself against anyway?
  • What do you think you might do to lower and release the importance of grading a piece of work that is going to change and grow as you do?
  • What are some of the good things about being 95% ready? 

Just in case I’m not making myself clear: It’s typical in this being human that we don’t ever want to be seen as the one who is unprepared. That we have to have everything lined up, so that we aren’t seen to slip up.

95% is ready enough.

Love.

Dawn

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