elizabeth kershaw

Founder of Journee. Digital Nomad. Personal Development Girlie.

Take imperfect action

I used to think this habit was key to my success.

Spoiler: It’s actually holding me back…

For so long I’ve been obsessed with planning. My mum always used to tell me "Fail to prepare, prepare to fail" ☝🏼

But that mindset made me a perfectionist (thanks mum)

↳ I thought I had to have EVERYTHING sorted to launch my new idea!

Then my friend reminded me:

TAKE 👏🏻 IMPERFECT 👏🏻 ACTION 👏🏻

Doing something is better than nothing, & you don‘t have to have it all figured out.

- Post SOMETHING
- Launch SOMETHING
- Do SOMETHING in the gym

Here's my system to beat perfection

1️⃣ Refrain from implementing lessons you‘ve learned in v1 on the SAME V1

2️⃣ Instead, use them in V2: It motivates you to try again and action your lessons

3️⃣ Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

4️⃣ Now, instead of 1 “never perfect” thing, you have 4 almost perfect things

🫶🏻 And you can trust that each will be better than the last!

So I’ve decided that 2025 is going to be the year of ✨Messy Moves ✨

Like Brat summer, but for business 💚🤪

If you want to beat perfectionism for good:

- Start at the wrong time
- Create more stuff
- Learn as you go

Stop planning, start DOING!! :)