DONE! Better than PERFECT!

Have you ever had a great idea, started working on it with so much passion, but somehow never completed it—because you wanted it to be perfect?

Yeah, me too

Perfectionism can be a sneaky form of procrastination.

It convinces us that we're just "refining" or "waiting for the right time," when really, we're just afraid it won’t be good enough. The truth is, many of us are not chasing perfection—we’re delaying progress.

Let me share something personal. I wrote my book "Oops! The Client is Upset" ten years ago (like seriously...a decade ago).

I poured my heart into every chapter. I researched. I wrote. I edited. And then… I waited. I told myself it wasn’t quite ready. I wanted the perfect design, perfect examples, perfect timing. So it sat in my computer for years, unread and unpublished.

One day, I bumped into an old friend and colleague who remembered how I used to talk about this book passionately. She asked, “So, did you ever publish it?”

That moment stung. Her shock—and subtle disappointment—hit me hard. Not because she judged me, but because I knew I had let myself down. I had allowed fear, masked as perfectionism, to hold me back.

That night, I opened the old manuscript. I read it again. And guess what?

I changed nothing. I published it just as it was.

Oops! The Client Is Upset

Fast forward one year later—I’ve sold over 1,000 copies, hosted 3 workshops in 3 different countries, featured in global publications and received multiple invitations to train customer service professionals on managing angry clients and turning them into loyal fans. All from a book I left sitting for ten years.

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Here's what I’ve learned: Perfection often comes after progress. It’s in the doing, the failing, the learning, and the adjusting. Not in the waiting.

So today, let me encourage you—whatever that thing is you’ve been postponing because it’s not yet “perfect,” do it anyway. Take the first messy, brave step. Publish. Launch. Apply. Speak. Start.

In the words of Zig Ziglar - "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great".

You’ll be amazed how life rewards action—not perfection.

Yours sincerely,

Amazing Wunmi