Failure 2.0 - Fear of Failure

Fear of failure shows can up as perfectionism. Many of my clients want everything to be perfect before they release anything to the public. This seems professional, but actually quite unrealistic, holding you back from moving forward quickly.

So what are you to do? Unless you are a surgeon or launching the space shuttle, having something less than absolutely perfect will not harm anyone. In fact, marketing and business are better when you take some risks and see what works best. The most famous and richest failure you may not classify as a failure, yet every few years he releases a new product to millions of people that has tons of bugs and drives half the people who buy it crazy. Yes, you may have guessed Bill Gates with his Windows products. One day I was hearing about the latest calamity with the Vista launch and it struck me, if he is the richest man in the world and he still releases a product with some glitches, then why were the rest of us entrepreneurs still trying to be perfect without his vast resources? So do the best you can, collaborate with others to make sure it is the best it can be, and then release it to the world. And if after it is released you want to make some modifications, just make it ProductX 2.0.

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Stacey Hylen is the creator and host of Business Optimization Week and the principal of Hylen Success Coaching. Staceyâ€™s clients say that she helps them optimize their business, better marketing, more sales, more profit, better systems and time management, improved online marketing, and increased work/life balance