Happy Easter, everyone! In these strange times a lot of us are trying to be more productive. We all get those days when we experience some kind of block on our productivity. It’s so important to eliminate as many of those obstacles as possible. If there was an additional step to writing this content right here, I would probably not finish it. The perfectionist in me has a paralysing effect on my ability to be production, to write, to create content. The thing I have to train myself to do is to connect my head straight to my hands so the work flows straight onto the page. I am sure I am not the only one. We all have mental gatekeepers that prevent us from taking certain actions, and if you are a content creator, all that doubt it creates for you about the quality of your content will probably lead you to spending days or weeks making sure that you have something that is in the perfect condition, only for that content to not connect with the audience, which unfortunately is an important metric at the end of the day. Do not punish yourself for the perceived lack of quality and instead understand the basic truth that the audience you are trying to connect with is a a fickle lot and you never truly know what connects - it all ends up being a numbers game in the end. You have to think about the barriers that are stopping you from doing what you want to do, right now, regardless of the perceived low quality of your content. There are reasons why some Tech YouTubers and podcasters use the same equipment they used five years ago. By keeping the production value low, the quality of the product is diminished but you add spontaneity, and more importantly, you never fail to produce.
Happy Easter, do not let the perfectionist in you paralyse you
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