Forget about Perfection but focus on this Instead
“Seinfeld Calendar Framework '' will help you to handle consistency and progress and will make you a genius at every skill that you want.
Today’s newsletter at a Glance :
1. One Quote : TemitOpe Ibrahim on how to beat perfectionism to be more consistent and progressive.
2. One Article : “Seinfeld calendar Framework” will give you a secret formula for the productivity blueprint and how to manage your skills consistently.
3. One Tweet : Naval on not to give up even when you are losing the game.
One Quote :
“Don't worry about not doing "it" perfectly right now. It's ok, just keep at it, you will soon settle in it and then you'll be glad you didn't give up.” ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim
Don’t worry about being perfect at something , but focus on your consistency and progressiveness.
Progress will beat perfectionism.
One Article :
Everyone wants themselves to be perfectionist at some skills , but no one wants to be consistent and align progress towards it. If you want to accomplish something great (or anything of any value) , then you need to stop believing in the lie of perfectionism and start believing in putting a great amount of effort behind progress .
Perfectionism doesn't make us great , but putting consistency on our goal and making progress towards it encourages us to strive more and more and we continue to lean forward on achieving our goals.
What is real progress?
The time when it all hits you on your head to keep going forward and asks you to be consistent at every effort that you put towards your goal . This is real progress .
That’s about what we are going to chat about today . Let's dive in.
Progress Keeps you Going -
It’s Intimidating
When you are determined about accomplishing something , that drives a sense of challenge and motivation to keep moving forward and if you are in the race of making yourself perfect at something , it deprives you of the spirit of consistency and makes you less determined towards your goals . In that way , you cannot put up your full potential at something , therefore that tasks or goals remain uncompleted and untouched sometimes .
But , if you keep progressing at your goal , it fills you with pride and satisfaction that you are closer towards it and makes you convinced that you can definitely achieve that.
“In the quest of finding perfectionism , you can lose the spark of progress and consistency at it.”
Progress beats perfection because it is attainable, the tasks to get you there don’t seem so intimidating. And if they do, progress gets you going by helping you figure out ways to keep breaking your goals down until they’re something you can manage.
Now we'll chat about how we can maintain consistency and how we can drive more progress towards achieving something .
Here is the famous “Seinfeld Calendar framework” that will help you in achieving the same.
Jerry Seinfeld’s Calendar framework helps us to align our tasks more productively and helps us to be more consistent and focused on developing our skills at it.
Here’s how this framework works :
Jerry Seinfeld in his early 20s would hang down a huge calendar on the wall and use a red marker to put an X that he completed his daily writing.
This drives a sense of curiosity and consistency that on an everyday basis , he is completing his tasks/skills of writing daily .
This helps him to make progress in his daily writing and make him more inclined towards his dream of becoming a great writer.
It was not only about his writing being good nor wanting to drive perfectionism in his daily writing goals , he started this with an ambition to develop a habit of becoming a great writer so that he could be more consistent towards what he was doing .
After all , it wasn’t about his writing being good , it was only about his consistency.
We can also learn this strategy from Seinfeld and could also apply this framework on developing consistency and progress towards what we are doing and could also become great at our skills.
One Tweet :
In this tweet , Naval guides us on how not to give up when we are still at the verge of losing something.
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