The Perfectionism Project

In today's episode, I share a chatty Growth Goal update for Quarter 2 of 2022. In quarter 2 we made about half of what we made in quarter 1 and had a "failed" launch BUT this was by far my favourite quarter. Tune in to learn exactly why plus why I felt resistant to recording this episode, my biggest lessons from the quarter, what didn't work and how much money the business made. In This Episode Yo...

Note: This episode is the audio version of my new video series How To Plan Properly As A Perfectionist. Watch the video series HERE . When perfectionists follow the same planning advice as everyone else, we get in our way. That's why the first step in the PGSD Process is making the Three Month Commitment to practice Power Planning. Power Planning covers everything perfectionists must do to plan pr...

I hadn't thought to do an episode on how I built my podcast until my friend Alexander James (who I interviewed in Episode 340) started asking for the details. So I thought that I'd record an episode on how I built my podcast to 2 million downloads without following industry best practices. This episode is about podcasting AND it's about how you can be successful even when you're not doing things t...

In this episode I'm interviewing my friend and fellow coach Alexander James. I met Alexander through Stacey Boehman's 200K Mastermind and knew that I needed to share his energy and his wisdom on this podcast. Alexander is a life coach that works with the deep subconscious and I know you're going to get a lot from what Alexander shares in this episode. We talk about how to create emotional safety a...

In this episode I want to talk to you about planned profit loss and how to feel safe when money ISN'T flowing in. When it comes to the entrepreneurial world, we see so many examples of people who are doubling, tripling and quadrupling their revenue year after year - and this creates the expectation that many should always be flowing in. And that certainly hasn't been the reality for me! So in the...

Every day during the most recent PGSD launch, I recorded a little snippet for the podcast. This episode is a compilation of those snippets, with me checking the launch sign up numbers 'live', sharing my raw reactions as well as what we did when the sign up numbers were NOT where we expected them to be.  I also share how I kept myself out of shame and panic AND a full launch debrief with my biggest...

This episode is the second part in a three part series on how to get your work done early and easily. In this episode I share how I navigated the weeks AFTER all the content for the most recent PGSD launch was complete (but before the launch began). Getting comfortable with this 'limbo' period was an important part of becoming someone who gets shit done early. And I share all the behind the scenes...

If you hate that you're always leaving important tasks until the last minute, I want to invite you to listen to today's podcast episode.  It's the first in a three part series where I share all of the behind the scenes perfectionism work I needed to do during the most recent PGSD launch to get all the content created early (and easily). Creating the most recent PGSD launch was a profound experienc...

When it comes to finding our work rhythms, perfectionist business owners tend to look at the rules and how other people are doing things. We sometimes ignore our own intuition and wisdom - an important part of discovering what works best for us. To illustrate how this process could look like, I'm chatting about what my work rhythm is evolving into as I learn more about myself from using Power Plan...

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...