‘Perfect is the Enemy of Good’

I had a boss once who would say that.  He was a serious jerk, by the way, so I really hate giving him credit… but it stuck with me. 

For YEARS (more than 20, less than 50… mind ya business) I have been crippled with the fear that unless I put out something absolutely PERFECT, I’d be embarrassing myself by trying to put out ANYTHING.  I haven’t wanted to be judged by my less than perfect looking art, or a website that looks like a NEWB created it.

When Etsy came along, I thought… ‘look, how AMAZING, all these people out there are making money doing what they LOVE… being actively creative’.  It never occurred to me that they were, in fact, putting out ‘good’ (not ‘perfect’) work on a web page that looked ‘good’.

I’m a fabulous story-teller, though.  And a REALLY good pretender (insert Foo Fighters song here).  So, I’m telling myself the story that the right people will find my website/my designs/my work… the unicorns in the world that will think it’s just as fun/funny/useful as I do.  I’m pretending that letting early adopters see my ‘good’ work instead of ‘perfect’ work is okay with me… that I don’t give a RIP what my web page and designs look like- that I’m not embarrassed that you aren’t seeing perfection.  I’m tricking myself into taking the first step toward my goals.

My mama ALWAYS said, ‘Fake it till you make it, Lissiebug’.  So yes, mama.  I will.

Anyway… thanks for being here.  Thanks for being here early.  It is my dream that my designs help spread a little joy… even just a smile.  So if you smiled today because of something you saw on the site- thanks for making my dream come true!