The Perfectionism Project

Have you ever felt like your self-coaching sessions aren't a productive use of your time? Or that you don't know what to submit for coaching on inside PGSD - even though you know there's plenty of work to do on your perfectionism handbrake? This episode will help!  In this episode, I'm sharing what a quarterly self-coaching curriculum is, why you need one and the 5 steps to creating one. In This E...

Erin, Naomi and Estelle signed up for PGSD in January 2022. They knew that they needed to get out of their own way in their businesses. And they knew that planning properly as a perfectionist was the first step… Erin is a copywriter who was spending an embarrassing amount (those are her words!) on courses, coaches and marketing advice only to self-sabotage when it came time to pitch herself.  Naom...

Our most successful PGSDers *know* what they need to do to build their business to $100,000 - they just can't get themselves to do it. This was the case for PGSDer Natalie Koons. In August 2021, she invested $6,000 in a business coach to teach her how to launch her course on sock knitting (Natalie is a knitter and crocheter). She figured that if could just find someone to tell her how to launch an...

Until you start thinking of yourself as a non-procrastinator, you'll always be left wondering how long your latest burst of productivity will last. That's why I'm sharing the 3 simple steps to becoming a non-procrastinator in the 5th and final part of my procrastination series. You don't have to wait to stop procrastinating before you start thinking of yourself as a non-procrastinator. In fact, yo...

The more clean rest you get, the less you will procrasti-work. And the less you procrasti-work, the more money you will make in your business. You'll learn exactly why this is true - and what to do if you feel resistant to clean rest - in this episode. This episode is for you if you work longer hours or weekends to make up for what you didn't complete during the week, you love the feeling of check...

When you're planning properly as a perfectionist, it's easy to spot procrasti-working. But what do you do once you catch yourself doing it? That's what I'm sharing in this episode - the third part in my procrastination series here on the podcast. In this episode you'll learn a simple tool our PGSDers use to pull themselves out of procrasti-working. It's called the Procrastination Pick Me Up. By th...

You don't need to completely stop procrastinating in order to hit your money goals and enjoy the process of doing it. In the second episode in my procrastination series I share 7 reasons why zero procrastination is not the goal… Procrastination is not a problem. And it's safe to let procrastination be ok ( the less shame you have about procrastinating, the less desire you'll have to procrastinate)...

Procrasti-working is when we work on our business as a form of procrastination. And if you do it, you're not alone. Perfectionist entrepreneurs don't procrastinate in the same ways as everyone else. Instead of avoiding work, we procrasti-work. This can look like scrambling to get all of your content created each week, moving sales tasks from one to-do list to the next or eating lunch at your desk...

In this episode I'm talking to one of our PGSDers, Jenna, all about the power of your Persistence Log. As part of planning properly as perfectionists we do a Weekly Review at the end of each week of Power Planning. And your Persistence Log in the PGSD Forum is the perfect place to share that - and I'll let Jenna tell you why! In This Episode You'll Learn: What you miss out on if you keep your week...

In today's episode, I share a chatty Growth Goal update for Quarter 1 of 2022. It's the third year I'm working towards a monetary goal and it feels so different this year. That's not because of the results I've already created, but because the way I'm thinking about it has created these results. Listen in as I chat about that shift and my personal growth in the first three months of 2022.  In This...

The process for getting out of your own way in your business is simple: plan properly as a perfectionist, follow through with your plans 80% of the time, rest without guilt and repeat. In this episode, I'm answering some of the most common questions that come up for perfectionist entrepreneurs when they start following this process. It's all about how to stay focused and get your needle movers don...

Is there a part of your business that you keep saying you're going to work on, but you secretly know you won't? It could be adding new client testimonials to your website, finalising and posting your updated pricing or creating your marketing funnel to reach your perfect client. You know how to do these tasks (maybe you've even done them for others in the past) - and yet a part of you is resistant...

In this episode I'm going to be showing you how Power Planning and Clean Rest will keep you motivated to show up in your business. If you've been wondering how to stay motivated and show up consistently, week after week after week - this episode will help you understand how following the PGSD Process will help you stay motivated as you build your business. Especially if you've been in the all-or-n...

In this episode we are going to be talking about your perfectionism handbrake - what it is, how to release it and feel safe doing so. This is going to be what helps you to get out of your own way in your business so you're showing up fully, serving your customers and clients, making more money and enjoying the day to day of being in business. For about a year now I've been talking about perfection...

In this episode I'm going to be talking about the importance of a Growth Goal and some of the signs it's working to get you out of your own way in your business. If you're a PGSDer, or you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you'll be familiar with a concept that I teach called the Impossible Goal. The Impossible Goal is a goal that is set above what is possible for yourself. And by set...

While perfectionists want everything in their lives to be perfectly organised, the irony is that they actually stop themselves from creating this reality - without even realising it! And one of the reasons they do this is because of their secret addiction to feeling behind. Most perfectionists would swear that they don't want to feel behind, so it can be confronting to realise that you might be ma...

In this episode I'm interviewing Brandon Lucero on how to stop being a perfectionist about your messaging. Brandon is an online marketing expert, serial entrepreneur and host of the New Generation Entrepreneur Podcast. He teaches entrepreneurs how to build a fulfilling and profitable business by helping them master their craft, remember who they are and use the psychology of selling for good. I kn...

In this episode I'm sharing a behind the scenes look at the most recent PGSD launch. This is the second part in a two part series that will help normalise the ups and downs of launching (regardless of what kind of business you have) and show you how to get out of your own way when you're selling. Tune in to listen to a compilation of daily, 'real time' updates from the launch period. In these upda...

In this episode I'm sharing a behind the scenes look at the most recent PGSD launch. This is the first part in a two part series that will help normalise the ups and downs of launching (regardless of what kind of business you have) and show you how to get out of your own way when you're selling. Tune in to listen to 3 updates that I recorded during the pre-launch period (right before the doors to...

Our perfectionism often makes us think that the work we've produced isn't good enough and that we need to re-do it. This usually turns into us doing our work over again and again. And when we get into this habit, it's very disheartening to even approach a task so we only end up procrastinating on it and putting it off. In this episode, I'm talking about why I wanted to re-record two podcast episod...

Revenge bedtime procrastination is something most perfectionists struggle to stop. When you're not planning properly as a perfectionist, you put more business tasks on your to-do list than you have time to complete. Because you want to be productive, you put pressure on yourself to get everything done. But then you don't know what to do first… You end up working on a random business task until it'...

In this episode I'm answering your questions about my group program Perfectionists Getting Shit Done. Since the doors to PGSD are closing in 48 hours (11:59pm EDT on 16 January 2022), I want to make sure you have everything you need to decide whether PGSD is a good fit for you and whether joining this round is the best timing. PGSD is my group coaching for perfectionist business owners to get them...

In this episode I'm interviewing Kristen Cain, a style coach and committed PGSDer, on all things perfectionism and Power Planning. A few months ago, Kristen reached out to our team to see if there was anything she could do to help spread the word about PGSD so that more people like her can get out of their own way in their business. So I decided to interview her for the podcast! The doors to PGSD...

There are courageous things you need to do to build your business that you might never feel excited about… like pitching yourself as a guest on one of your favourite podcasts or posting on Instagram when you've been getting is 17 likes or publishing your sales page when you're still working on believing that your product is worth the money. If you're only able to do things when you're in the mood...

Power Planning will get you out of your own way in your business and have you doing the deep perfectionism work you need to do - all while you're doing more of what matters than ever before (in less time and with less overthinking). But it won't work for you if you give up on it prematurely. The habit of giving up too soon is one of the main reasons you're not where you want to be in your business...