Letting go – how to reduce stress and increase productivity

Learn to let go. This is the key to happiness

- Buddha

I would also add it is the way to lowering your stress levels and increasing your productivity.

So, for example I normally procrastinate horribly because I’m afraid of making mistakes – of not being perfect. Today I am letting go of having to be perfect and just cracking on. Things don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be done!

This has increased my productivity already since I have let go of that perfection by just doing stuff. Sounds easy and may not be a problem for you but I do know that many other people share my ‘perfectionist’ problem. I even caught myself the other day thinking that I wasn’t perfect enough to be a perfectionist! Talk about faulty thinking!

Anyway, I hear you asking, what’s this got to do with the internet and business?

Actually…everything. You see over a year ago I had an idea for a product and workshop called “workshop in a weekend”. Pretty neat idea I thought; get people together and train them how to build their own sites in a weekend. 48 hours start to finish. I bought the domain name, started jotting ideas about what the workshop would look like, even provisionally booking a venue. then, I got stuck because I had so many doubts.

In the last couple of days a google alert on ‘website in a weekend’ flagged up a post from someone looking back on a year in which they had taken action on virtually the same idea I had had more than 18 months ago, talking about how their life had changed.

What a kick up the backside that has been for me. No more procrastination. No more faffing about.

As of Jan 1st I’m an action taker. Are you?

I’d love to hear your comments and experiences of taking action or your perfectionist streak holding you back.

Remember what the great man said “happiness is learning to let go” What are you letting go of today?