The Importance of – “Just being good enough”

Here is a real life example of the benefits of ‘Just Being Good Enough’.

Just Being Good Enough is a concept I inferred from my favourite writer Malcolm Gladwell. In his book ‘Outliers’ he makes the case, that for luck to have it’s effect on you, you must take some action. However, that action does not have to be perfect, it only ever has to be ‘Good Enough’.

A perfect example of this occured today on this very blog. Take a look at the optin box on the right hand side. It’s not the prettiest is it? However it proved good enough, as within 3 minutes of me adding it, I acquired my first subscriber.

Just this morning I wrote a post about my 3  tasks of the day, one of those tasks being to add an opt-in box. I looked around the Internet for 15 minutes to find some fancy opt-in boxes before I stopped myself.

I always teach my students to complete one task at a time and get the important stuff first, yet here I was looking for a fancy design, when my first task should have been to get a working opt-in form on my blog, and then consider making it prettier.

This has reminded me yet again, how right I am to always tell my followers not to worry about something being 100%. Yes always aim to improve something until it is 100% but firstly make it good enough, that where you energy should go, and then work on making it 100%

Too many people I know, have great products and services but get stuck trying to make the perfect plan or website. I hope those reading will be as excited as I am, that being good enough is all it takes to see results.

And just finishing this post, barely 10 minutes after installing the box, I have 2 subscribers. Not mind blowing but pretty good for a one week old blog… Maybe people are starting to believe I will complete this challenge too…