How Perfectionism Is Holding You Back ~ Leila Hormozi

And so if the business makes a mistake or has a problem, we identify as being a mistake or having problems.

When in reality, they're two separate entities.

And if you can separate yourselves and you can develop healthier beliefs around what is perfect, what is not, and perfectionism in general, then we can grow our businesses.

And so I think a lot of the times what it is is that it takes a relentless amount of execution, perfect execution with tight controls in order to get a business to 10 million, 15 million, and even sometimes 20 million.

But if you want to get your business past that point, then you have to let go of control.

You have to let go of the idea of perfectionism.

And then I got slapped in the face with reality when I realized that my business wasn't growing because of my tendencies, because of my need for perfection, and because of my need to feel good about the business in order to feel good about myself.

So what happens is that if you can relate to this, if you feel like, oh, I kind of am a perfectionist, I never want problems in my business.

I never want to make mistakes, right? It's typically that we're looking at things as problems that are actually conditions of business.

OK, so let me give you an example of what this means.

Say that you think an employee is complaining or employees aren't getting along and you think that's a problem.

I see that as a condition of business.

Now, old Layla would say that's a problem.

People aren't getting along, blah, blah, blah.

Layla now says that's a condition of business.

It might be that one month you have low sales and you might think there's a huge problem in my business.

Layla might think maybe there was a holiday, maybe it's seasonal.

There's so many other reasons for a slump in sales.

What I'm trying to show you is that there's a lot of things that we control in order to get our business to one level, but we have to let go of those expectations in order to get to the next.

Because the reality is that with every upside, so if you want to grow your business further, you also have to accept the downside that comes with that.

And I think a lot of the times we aren't willing to accept that downside.

And so we hold on tighter and tighter and then our business starts to flatline.

And that's what we see.

And so what I want to share today are just really the three beliefs that I actually broke of myself and the three new beliefs that I learned to embody in order to grow my business past that point that I had flatlined.

So I hope you can do the same.