In this Three Thoughts for Thursday episode, I’m talking about the hidden stop signs that quietly kill momentum in your business. Not the obvious stuff, but the habits that look responsible, smart, or strategic on the surface.

We’ll unpack why perfection is a terrible pacing strategy, how over preparing can keep you from ever starting, and why waiting for clarity often guarantees you never move at all. If you’ve been circling the same ideas, projects, or goals wondering why nothing is clicking yet, this episode is your gentle but firm nudge to shift gears.

This isn’t about rushing or being reckless. It’s about choosing excellence over perfection, evolution over over engineering, and movement over mental gridlock. Let’s get you back on the road.

Welcome to three Thoughts for Thursday, where wisdom meets momentum.

Here's Kimberly Beer, entrepreneurial, wise woman and cyber sorceress to share three sparks to challenge how you think, create and lead.

My three thoughts for today are around recognizing stop signs in your business.

And this might be a little bit different than what you think it means from that particular statement.

So my first thought is to look at your pacing strategy and if you are setting the pacing in your business according to a standard of perfection versus a standard of excellence.

So the stop sign would be if you're using perfection as a pacing strategy.

And by that I mean you have to make things in your business perfect.

In other words, before you launch your website, it actually has to be really, really perfect.

And you're a new business owner and you never ever launch it.

I have clients who do this.

I have several websites that are, in my opinion, complete and ready to go out into the world and their owner and proprietor is still waiting for some perfection.

And that is not a good strategy.

That is actually a stop sign.

It is not a good pacing strategy.

What I encourage you to do is to start shifting away from this is going to be perfect.

Because my dear, let me be the word of love to tell you it's never going to be perfect.

What it can, however be is excellent.

It can be a really good representation of what you need right now.

And the fun part about most things in business, not all, but the mass, mass majority of them, is they are always evolving.

So there's always the opportunity to make it better, to improve it, and to make it more excellent.

So your stop sign for my first thought is if you are using perfection as a bar for you to do 8 anything in your business or release anything in your business, please use this as a stop sign, shift the gears over into excellence and let's get on the road to success.

My second thought is around over preparing versus starting.

So this is very similar to the perfection thing, but it's a slight difference.

I once did this wonderful blog post which I'll try to dig up and link in the in the show notes for this show because it just now is coming to me.

Even though I have prepared notes for this episode, it just popped up into my head around this and it was around not solving problems that you don't have.

So this is another thing I see so many business owners do.

And let me give you a solid example of this.

So let's say you are a brand new business, you're a coach, you're wanting to do workshops and you've Never done workshops before.

You have a fair size list.

Let's give it 300 people.

And now you're ready to launch into doing your workshops and you want to put into place some automations and some software to be able to get that done.

Hey, I'm your girl.

I spend a lot of time in that cyber sorceress role helping people find the right technology to go along with their business.

And I absolutely love doing that.

But here's what happens is that the person who's at this stage where they're just getting started into doing workshops now has all of these rules that would be around somebody who would be booking workshops off of one email, completely filling them.

And that's not going to be the case, at least not to start.

It could be, but it's a problem you don't have to solve right now and it's also a problem you can solve on the fly.

So over preparing, in other words, going with the third level up software versus the beginner level where you're at and paying all that more money and also having to deal with all of the more capability and setup that that other software requires in order to do all of the automations for the 10 people that you're going to serve in a year.

And you could actually do by hand and learn the whole method because hey, guess what, you're new at this and even all of your over preparation is not going to solve the problems that you run into in the real world.

Like we can guess at what those things would be and try to put things in place for it, or we can run it through once and see what happens and then for the next time go in and evolve it into being something better.

So here our stop sign is over preparing instead of actually getting started.

Because by the way, most of the time everybody gets lost in the problem they tried to solve that got more complicated and more complicated and more complicated that they didn't actually have versus actually getting started.

So our stop sign is if we're over preparing versus starting and our shift, our mindset shift, our gear shift, is to start looking at evolving a process and taking it on as an experiment to see how it works and learning from that and actually putting it out there and then making the evolution as it goes along.

All right, my third thought around this subject is stop waiting for clarity before you start moving.

So clarity is amazing.

I, I am a big proponent of get a lot of clarity.

But clarity often happens when you're in the process, again, very much like that, solving problems you don't have or over preparing part or getting into the perfection area.

This is just kind of a reframe maybe of those two, along with a little bit of an added incentive to say you don't have to have all of the answers before you start moving towards your goal.

And the more that you can allow yourself to move without knowing it all, the more nimble and the more agile you will be in creating movement in your business.

Now that's not to say go off half cocked with no idea of where you're going.

What I'm saying is, is that you don't have to know all of the answers.

You don't have to have a perfect prediction of what the future is going to be in order to create movement toward your goal.

You can again evolve and make pivots along the way.

And oftentimes even if you go for as all of the maximum clarity that you can get, you still will be doing that once you start moving.

So get on it, get going and move in that direction.

And as this episode is coming out, I'm taping it right at the first of the month, but I am betting we're in that part of the month where it is very close to the day where everybody's resolutions just die.

It is the graveyard of Resolution Day.

And if one of your resolutions was to really work on your business or one of your intentions, one of your visions, all of the fun stuff that I absolutely love to get into at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, if those are being affected by these stop signs, in other words, you're building the stop sign and putting them there.

Here's your sign to stop doing that, shift your gears and go in a different direction.

Go for excellence, go for evolution, and go for the pivot rather than the the stop for the perfection, the stop for over preparation and the stop for clarity.

So I hope this episode has helped and get you back on track.

Thanks for hanging out with me for this.

3 thoughts for Thursday and I'll see you in the next episode.

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