Leadership topic - Perfect

It gets in the way of progress for Cleaning Up, Goals, and in general. Pause and engage in a different way of thinking about PERFECT…

After Cleaning Up and establishing reasonable Goals, what stands most in the way of progress in the New Year?  PERFECT – the constant drone in your head of those negative notes in a minor key.  You can’t, it isn’t good enough, etc… and sadly the volume of that soundtrack has the most dynamic range for most.

Looking for music that is far from PERFECT, yet transformative, I looked to the Blues – the soundtrack for negative thinking – sorta. There is something about the Blues that makes me at least feel better. And I am not alone – most of the music we listen to at least in America has roots back to this most primitive and most basic style of music. Invented in the deep south by outcasts from society, it has transformed music in a way that most of us never really understand.

Conveniently, PERFECT has 7 letters to match the 7 days of these articles. Taking one each day, I will offer a “different” view of what PERFECT could actually be for us – helping us to understand a different approach. I also will weave in the concepts of Design Thinking that models the “just try something” that started the Blues in the first place. And we will have a short introduction to how to apply that to your life, and the new practice I have used for myself and others, Designing Your Life.

So follow along for a conversation PERFECT – a letter at a time. A different way to define and think about your New Year.