There’s a lot of talk in the entrepreneurial world about the dream of “being your own boss.” But what happens when you finally become your own boss… and realise you’ve turned into the worst boss you’ve ever had?
This episode introduces a different way of thinking about how perfectionism is showing up in your business. It’s a metaphor that’ll help you really see why you keep getting in your own way – and what to do about it. Because when your perfectionism handbrake is on, it doesn’t matter how motivated or disciplined you are. You’ll still feel behind, burned out, overthinking everything, and wondering why nothing is working.
In this episode, I’m walking you through what it means to be both the boss and the employee in your business – and how perfectionism can make both of those roles way harder than they need to be. I’ll show you how to start being the kind of boss you actually want to work for (no matter where you’re at right now), and why that shift alone can change everything.
Inside PGSD, we teach you how to be the kind of boss you’d actually like to work for and the kind of employee who gets shit done without burning out.
If you’ve been spinning your wheels and wondering what you’re missing, this episode will help you understand what’s really going on and how to finally get out of your own way.
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Introduction
Hi and welcome to another episode of The Perfectionism Project, a podcast full of perfectionism advice for entrepreneurs. My name is Sam Laura Brown, I help entrepreneurs release their perfectionism handbrake so they can get out of their own way and build a fulfilling and profitable business. I’m the founder of the Perfectionist Getting Shit Done group coaching program, which is otherwise known as PGSD. And for even more perfectionism advice to help you with your business. You can follow me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
Sam Laura Brown (Intro to the episode)
Okay. Another episode for you. This week, there have been a few going out. I hope you’ve been finding them incredibly helpful. So we, at the moment, are in our open enrollment for perfectionist getting shit done.
And what I have been doing is going through the podcast, all of our 500 plus episodes, and hand selecting ones that I think are essential for you to listen to as a perfectionist who’s trying to build a business, especially if you’re in the stage right now where you are struggling with productivity. So this episode on being the best boss to yourself is very important, and I highly encourage you to listen the whole way through. This is something that we really help you with inside my program, perfectionist getting shit done. And so I wanna invite you inside before enrollment closes. So at the time of this being released, there is less than forty eight hours before the doors are closing for enrollment.
So it’s samlaurabrown.com/pgsd. It’ll be linked in the show notes. That’s where you can go to get the details to sign up and join us inside, especially I just wanna call out if you were someone who has been listening to this podcast for a long time and you hear me talk about it and you think, god. That sounds like it would be so helpful to be in. This is your sign.
This is your sign to stop spinning your wheels and get yourself inside the program. It requires a leap of faith for a lot of our PGSDers. If you have a history of not following through with your plans due to perfectionism, if you have a history of the procrastinating and the overthinking that comes with perfectionism, then, of course, it can feel like a leap of faith to do a program like PGSD. And we have heard time and time and time and time again from so many PGSDers who had that hesitation and who then made that investment, who signed themselves up, who learned how to get the perfectionist mindset working for them instead of against them, and put themselves and their business on a completely different trajectory. They didn’t have to be more motivated or more disciplined or be better.
They just had to learn how to get their perfectionist mindset on their side. And that’s what we get you inside PGSD, the right tools and the right support for your perfectionist brain. So if you’ve been thinking about it, I wanna invite you to get inside the program, samlaurabrown.com/pgsd. You can go there right now on your phone, sign up, get yourself inside. I hope you enjoy this episode, and I hope to see you inside the program.
Sam Laura Brown
In this episode, I wanna share an idea with you that will help you to understand how your perfectionism handbrake is holding you back in your business. And this is something that I don’t hear talked about very much. It’s a different way of thinking about how you get out of your own way inside PGSD, so I wanted to bring it to your attention. So there’s a lot of talk in the world of entrepreneurship about being your own boss and how incredible it is to be your own boss, and that whole ideal is put on this pedestal of if you could just be your own boss, then everything would be better. And what happens is when your perfectionism handbrake is on, you can still become your own boss.
And, like, when we have the handbrake on, we can achieve a lot. And that’s the danger of it that we have the handbrake on. We achieve a lot. Even though we feel inadequate, we’re burning out, procrastinating, all these things, we achieve a lot, and we start to think that we’re achieving a lot because the handbrake is on even though we’re actually achieving a lot in spite of it. And then we start to attribute success to those perfectionist tendencies and to that handbrake being on, and it just becomes this whole thing.
So it’s not like it’s not possible to become your own boss with the handbrake on. But what will happen is that if your perfectionism handbrake is on, then you might be your own boss, but you’re probably not gonna be the kind of boss that you actually want to work for. And that makes it very challenging, and it can make entrepreneurship not fun at all. When you are basically just being a bitch to yourself and being the worst, most demanding boss that you’ve ever had, it’s not super fun. And we can try and solve that problem by achieving goals and thinking, well, if I just get to the next goal and if I’m just so productive, then I’ll finally feel good enough, and then I can finally relax a little or get off my own back or all these different things.
But what we wanna be having you do is looking at being and becoming the kind of boss now that you wanna work for instead of waiting till you’re more successful to be an empowering boss to yourself. Because the more quickly you can become that empowering boss, the more quickly you’ll achieve success as well. Because remember, we’re successful despite the handbrake being on, not because of it. And the quicker you can release that handbrake, the more successful you’ll be, but also the more satisfied you will be, the more fulfilled you will feel, the more impact you will have as well. So I want you to just take a minute now, regardless of whether you’re full time in your business or not, to reflect on what kind of boss you are to yourself and whether you’re the kind of boss you would want to work for and you’d love working for and you’d love to show up fully for and to go all in for, or if you’re the kind of boss that if it was someone else, you would get home and maybe complain about how little time off and how little rest they give you, how you are underappreciated and overworked, how you aren’t given clear instructions or clear deadlines, so it’s very challenging to please your boss because you don’t even know what the fuck they want.
Maybe you would say about this boss that they have so much of their self worth wrapped up in how that that business is going, that it’s so challenging for you to contribute because they’re not willing to let go of certain things. They’re not willing to outsource certain things and to have ideas be brought into things, and that they’re very attached emotionally to how things are going and that that clouds their judgment because of that. What would you say about yourself as a boss if it wasn’t you? Like, if someone else was doing all those same things. And would you actually want to continue working for that boss?
It’s so important to be thinking about this because when that handbrake is on, we aren’t the best boss for ourselves. And I want you to be thinking about in your business, regardless of whether you have a team or not, that you’re wearing two hats. You are wearing the entrepreneur boss hat, which is where you have the bigger vision. You’re coming up with ideas. You’re creating the plans, the direction, all of that kind of thing.
And then you have the other times where you’re wearing the other hat, which is the employee tactician kind of hat, where you are doing what your boss has said to do. So you’re jumping back and forth between these two hats. And by the way, it is so helpful to be able to just identify which hat you are wearing and when you are wearing it because the temptation when we don’t identify that and we don’t have that awareness is to just do the two at the same time. So we will be the boss. The entrepreneur will have this big vision, and then we will hand it over to the worker.
But when we’re the worker who is executing the plan, we will question it and go back into being the boss, and then we’ll go back to being the like, we’ll just kind of flick between boss employee, boss employee, or boss worker or whatever you wanna think about it as. And it means that it’s very challenging for anything to get completed and for ideas to be fully tested because we get into being the person who needs to execute it, execute on that vision, and we’re still kind of in that boss hat and we we have that on and we have the handbrake on that we have our self worth attached to the success of the business because we see ourselves as the business. And so it becomes very scary to execute the plans the boss had because what if we can’t do it? What if that means we’re not good enough? And it’s a whole thing.
So if you can identify and even designate to yourself, Kate, today I’m being the boss, and then today I’m being the employee, the worker, that can be really helpful. And we’re not gonna be talking about it specifically in this episode, but I want you to just quickly have a think as well about what kind of employee slash worker you are for yourself and whether you would hire yourself if you were hiring someone? Or are you giving yourself, the employee side of you, certain tasks and then not getting done because you didn’t feel like it or because you wanted to scroll through Instagram instead for inspiration. Like, if you hired someone and they said, I’m so sorry. I didn’t get this stuff done today because I wasn’t feeling inspired.
And so I just thought I’d go on to Instagram and just look for inspiration and watch some YouTube videos. Would you be pleased with that? Probably not. You’d be saying, okay. Well, I know you I’ve asked you to do some uncomfortable things, but you need to do them.
Like, that’s your job. And so we need to develop the self trust and self image and relationship with ourself where we’re able to be the greatest worker who’s falling through with things, getting into that growth mindset by releasing that handbrake can really help with that because our self worth is less attached to the outcome of things. So it’s much easier to have courage when we’re thinking about things in that way. So it’s helpful to look at, would you actually be an employee that you would hire, and what would that look like? And looking at that objectively, this can also be really helpful when it comes to figuring out what needle movers are.
And if you are doing your power planning and you’re looking at, okay, what’s a needle mover? What’s busy work? It can be hard to discern that. A question that can help is, would I pay someone to complete this? And if I did, what kind of parameters would I set for them?
Like, would I give them three months to do it? Or, for example, if you were paying someone, say, to write Instagram captions for you to do your Instagram marketing strategy, would you be pleased if they posted, you know, every day for a week and then they ghosted everyone and didn’t post for another month because it was scary to post. And it was scared of being judged, and they got in their own head about it. And if it took them two hours to write a caption and then they didn’t even publish it, would you be happy with that? Would you be willing to pay for that?
But, also, it can help you just determine, like, this project, I wouldn’t even be willing to pay someone to do it or to invest in training someone to do it because it’s really not that important. And if I did have to hire people to help me build the business, these are the things I would hire them to do. That can just be a great question to help you see what’s a needle mover and what’s busy work. Because if you wouldn’t be willing to pay someone and to train someone to do something, then it’s a good sign that it doesn’t really matter. And therefore, you don’t need to be doing it, and you might just be doing it so you can be feeling productive without having to feel vulnerable.
So there’s that to keep in mind as well. But let’s talk about you being your own boss and how you would rate yourself currently as your own boss. And, again, even if you are only spending a couple of hours working in your business every week or if you’re full time in your business, you need to be thinking about this now instead of saying, well, I’ll become a better boss, a kinder boss, a more compassionate boss, a more empowering boss once I’m successful, or once I’m spending more time in my business, it doesn’t work that way. You need to start thinking about this now and just recognizing how you would rate yourself in terms of being a boss and where you might need to improve things so that your employee, which is also you, is more empowered to execute on those plans. So power planning, which is a tool, a planning method that we teach inside PGSD, is so helpful when it comes to this question.
It will help you see and will reveal to you where you might not be being the most empowering boss to yourself. So for example, something that will often come up with power planning is in the beginning, especially, noticing how much you over plan. This is when you are putting more on your plate than you can actually handle. So if we think about again, we have that distinction between boss time and employee time. When you are doing your one hour weekly power planning session, that’s you with the boss hat on.
You are thinking about the bigger picture of the business and what you need to have your team do. You’re also the team, but what you need to have the team do in order to execute on that vision that you have for the year, for the three years to come, five years to come, whatever that looks like. So that’s your boss time. And, basically, the rest of the week, unless you delegate more boss time to yourself in your power planning, you, for the most part, are being the worker, the employer employee, sorry, the tactician who is just executing on those plans. So when you’re doing this power planning session, you can see the habits that you have as a boss.
So are you putting way too much on your employee’s plate? And this is why as part of the power planning method, One of those steps is to review your calendar for workability because this has just been a check of, hey. Are you actually being a really cruel and demanding boss to yourself where your employee, if they were to follow this, if it’s even possible, are they gonna be overworked and underappreciated? Do they have enough time for rest? Do they have enough time for the other things they’ve got going on in their life?
Do they have enough time for their health and fitness and to just be? So that’s one of the steps of power planning for a reason. It’s just a little check-in to make sure that we aren’t being so cruel to ourselves as a boss. But your habits and your the way that you’re showing up as a boss will be revealed to you with power planning. This is why, power planning like, it’s designed to reveal to you things that don’t currently work about the way that you approach planning.
So it will reveal to you the way that your perfectionism handbrake is on so that you can then release that handbrake. And if you’re just given the steps, you’re gonna notice all the ways your handbrake is on, and you’re not gonna know how to actually release it. So that’s why the power planning methods comes with support inside PGSD. But when you were doing this power planning, it might be, for example, that you can notice how much you are over planning. You’re putting way too much on your employee’s plate, and you are just asking way too much of them.
And no wonder when it gets to every other day of the week and you are being the employee who is following through with that plan that you’re like, what the fuck? I can’t actually do this. You immediately fall behind on those plans because there was way too much given to you in the first place or the way that your boss has delegated things to you is in a way that doesn’t really make sense. Like, it’s at hours that you don’t actually want to work. Like, you would love to be able to work then, but you can’t.
So it’s this plan that your boss created for you, like, for your ideal self instead of the real you. And maybe the way that this plan is laid out, it doesn’t actually make sense with the way that you work best. So, obviously, this is slightly different when you have a boss that hopefully not gonna just say here’s exactly what to do and when to do it. Hopefully, they will empower you to manage that yourself. But if we think about in this situation, you’ve been the boss, then you’ve been the employee, and you’re wearing both those hats.
So the boss side of you is saying, you should be able to do this in this amount of time with this little rest. And when it gets to the version of you that needs to follow you through, that you might have, as a boss, put things in your plate in an order that doesn’t really make sense because maybe you’ve got all the admin y stuff first, for example. And then later in the afternoon, you have all the tasks that require courage. But if you’re anything like me, you need to do those courageous things first. You have the best brainpower in the morning.
So getting those things done first without checking Instagram or email or anything like that is the best path forward. And then doing life admin or business admin stuff in the afternoon works so much better. So power planning will help you become aware of how you work best because you will be able to notice when your plan isn’t working for you, and you’ll be able to see patterns and understand why it’s not working. This is one of the reasons that you give it three months because it takes a while to see the patterns that are there and to see, oh, wow. I keep putting way too much on my plate.
Or, for example, I keep under planning, which is not being specific enough, not focusing on the outcome rather than the activity and all of these different things going on. So for example, speaking to the outcome versus activity, if your boss just said to you, hey. Work on this project this week. That’s so challenging as an employee to fulfill on because how much do they want done? What’s the deadline?
Like, you don’t know their expectations, and this is where it relates to underplanning that it can still look like you have a lot on your calendar. But if you’re putting activities, for example, instead of, the outcome, which might be to publish a website with a home page and about me page, for example, the activity version of that, which is what we tend to put in our to do list, is work on website. So if your boss is saying something like work on the website this week, as the employee, that is so challenging to execute on because they haven’t articulated what actually needs to be done. Like, what’s the outcome you’re working towards? They just said spend all this time working on it.
It might actually be that instead of they’ve said, okay. Spend forty hours working on this task. If they said what the actual outcome is, you might be like, hey. I can actually achieve that outcome in just an hour. But when we plan for activity instead of planning for outcomes, we tend to spend a lot of time doing things that don’t really matter.
Instead of if we’re outcome focused, we can identify the quickest and easiest and often most courageous way to achieve that outcome and get it done, and we can really clearly tell when it has been completed instead of going back to the boss at the end of the week and be like, cool. I worked on the website this week. Was that what you wanted? I just tinker away at it. Like, what did you actually want the outcome to be?
So that’s another way that power planning really helps with this because you need to schedule needle movers and you need to be scheduling outcomes as well. And if you aren’t scheduling outcomes to yourself and maybe you are just you have this long to do list and it’s all activities of, like, work on this, post consistently on Instagram, like, these vague kind of things. So say, for example, if and this is I’m just saying this because it’s something that I hear a lot. My goal is to post consistently on Instagram. If you gave that to someone so say you hired a social media manager and you said, okay.
This week, I just want you to post consistently on Instagram. What does that mean? Like, literally, what does that mean? And every time they go to post, would you like them to go okay. Shit.
I need an image. I’m gonna go and scroll through my camera roll and try and find an image, or I’m going to go into Canva and write a quote. Okay. Now I need a caption. Okay.
I’m gonna spend an hour writing this caption, and it needs to be perfect. And then I might post it. Depends how confident I’m feeling that day or I might not post it. Or would you rather them create a plan and batch those images together? So either if they’re creating graphics in camera, for example, that they do that all at once Or if they’re finding photos from their camera roll, they do that all at once.
And they write the captions all at once, and they schedule it out, and they know exactly what consistently means. So does consistently mean once a day? Does consistently mean 10 times a day? Does that mean once a week? They know exactly how many times they need to post to fulfill on that.
They can be creative about the best way to do it. So for example, if we focus on activity and you have in your calendar on your to do list to, like, work on Instagram stuff or even just to post on Instagram, which is vague, if instead you had your outcome be to post x number of times in the week, your brain is gonna be so much more creative at coming up with a solution for that. That is going to take less time, probably more courage, but definitely less time. So instead of spending six hours or, say, twelve hours that week on Instagram to do six posts, instead in that time, you could prepare a month’s worth, if not more, of posts. So it can just be helpful to think about again.
If you were delegating this and doing your power planning for someone else to follow, would they actually be able to know what you expect of them, or would it be all of these vague activities of, like, work on this, then work on that for a little bit, then work on that for a little bit? So if you are currently delegating to yourself like that, then you might not be being the most empowering boss you can be because it’s so challenging to live up to your own expectations and to tell whether or not they’re being met or whether or not there is a issue that needs to be resolved. So power planning is such a great tool for helping you to spot self sabotage because if you are working from a to do list, it’s very easy to skip over certain things again and again and again or to spend way too long on something. But when you’re working from a calendar, it becomes very clear when you are putting things off, when you are taking longer than you’d planned to take, and you can then actually do something about it. But I just want you to be thinking about when it comes to your relationship with yourself as it pertains to being a boss and as it pertains to being your own employee as well.
Are you either putting way too much on your plate, your employee’s plate, and overworking them and underappreciating them, Or are you being so vague? They don’t even know what you wanna do, and we tend to go into this under planning mode after we’ve been over planning a lot. So over planning, we’re putting way too much on the plate, overworked, underappreciated. I’m like, oh my god. That’s so unsatisfying.
So what I’m gonna do is just be a bit kinder to myself and be really vague about things so I can’t actually let myself down. But in that case, we when we set us a lot in these situations where we can’t let ourselves down. It also means we can’t actually succeed either. Like, we really can’t fulfill any expectations. And so I just want you to even just right now, have a look at your to do list, have a look at your calendar.
If someone else had given that to you or if you had given that calendar to someone else, would they even know what these things mean? And you might think, oh, no. I’ve just written in shorthand because it’s me and I know what I’m talking about. But other disease vague activities and you don’t even know what the actual outcome is or why you’re doing it or how to tell whether or not it has been achieved. So the PGSD process that we teach in PGSD, obviously, really helps with this, and I just want to, kinda go through quickly how it helps because these are things that you can be focusing on yourself to help you become the kind of boss that you actually wanna work for.
So, yes, I know it’s so amazing to have the goal of growing your business, but we want to have you be an empowering boss to yourself so that you actually enjoy it and you don’t end up achieving your dream of being your own boss and finding out that you’re the worst boss that you have ever worked for. Not fun. So the PGSD process in this process is going to help you release your perfections and the hand breaks so you can get out of your own way, get you done without burning out, and achieve your goals. It’s gonna help you put what you intellectually know into practice and start having your business actually reflect your potential. So it’s going to help you become a better boss, a boss that you would act like to work for, a boss that empowers their employees.
So we talked about, really being clear. And so these are growth goal, your momentum project, power planning, and clean grass. These all really impact your ability to be an empowering boss. Because if you don’t know where the ship’s trying to sail to, how are you gonna figure anything else out? How are you gonna prioritize things?
How are you gonna know what’s important and what isn’t important? How is your team going to know what they’re actually building towards. If you’re like, oh, we just wanna be successful. We just wanna make money. We just wanna, like, be a best seller.
Like, all these vague kind of things. Like, we need an actual clear goal to empower you as a boss to be a better boss, but also to empower your team so they know what they’re actually working towards. You also need to do power planning. As I mentioned, it’s such a powerful tool to help you see where you could be a more empowering boss for yourself and to make those changes. But, also, when you’re power planning, that’s when you as a boss is giving you as your employee the plans.
And if you are over planning or you’re under planning, which are mistakes that power planning will help you to notice of that and therefore then be able to avoid them and stop making those two mistakes. Also keeping your plans workable, which we haven’t talked about in this episode, but that’s such a huge thing. Power planning is going to help you to actually empower the employee side of you to be able to get shit done without burning out, but to also have a life and identity beyond the business and empower the boss side of you to have an identity beyond the business as well. And clean rest is a huge part of that, which is resting without guilt. So if you as a boss are expecting your employee to work twenty four seven and you should be productive all the time and if you’re resting, you should feel guilty.
We all know that if we’re working for a boss that was someone other than us and they were like, you have to work twenty four seven, and if you’re resting, you should feel guilty about it. We’d be like, no. I don’t want that. And yet we do that to ourselves. So once you have planned in a way that’s gonna help you release your perfectionism hand break, we wanna just make sure that hand break isn’t coming on in these certain ways that stop you from being productive.
So it’s overwhelm, procrastination, and burnout. I’m not gonna go into them too much in this episode, but when you are able to overcome overwhelm, to beat procrastination, to stop burning out, you are going to be a better employee for the boss side of you. And also you’re gonna be a better boss because if you’re an overwhelmed boss who procrastinates on actually making plans and setting goals and who burns out after every big project, not empowering for your employees. So that one works both ways. Then we have self trust, self image, and self confidence.
If you don’t have self trust, it’s very challenging to be an empowering boss because you don’t trust your own decisions. You don’t trust yourself to even follow you through with things and to have your team follow you through with things either. Because if you don’t trust yourself to follow you through, you’re gonna project that onto everyone else. So you’re not able to actually even it makes it so hard to create plans and to create goals because the trust is in there and decision making isn’t there. So as a boss, if you went to your boss and they’re like, oh, sorry.
I haven’t made a decision yet. Oh, sorry. I haven’t made a decision yet. Also, like, how frustrating is that? And yet as a boss, we often do that.
So that’s where self trust comes in. Self image is the story you have about yourself, your identity. And if your boss doesn’t believe they’re even capable of being a boss or that they deserve to be a boss, that isn’t gonna have them showing up in a really empowering way. If they’re like, oh, well, you know, I’m just trying this thing out, and I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes.
And I’m not really an entrepreneur and, like, that whole thing. Or if self image doesn’t just relate to yourself image as an entrepreneur, but if their identity is that they’re not someone who can actually be successful or if their identity is that they aren’t decisive. So this relates to self trust again. But there’s so many little ways that identity shows up. And if you aren’t working on your self image, it’s gonna be very hard to be an empowering boss and even your self image about being a boss in and of itself about being a leader.
What is your self image like when it comes to that, and you need to do some direct work on that most likely, especially if you can relate to what I’ve talked about in this episode. So that’s another huge thing as well and your self image when it comes to being an employee, the identity that you have. Do you believe yourself to be just someone who is gonna be a procrastinator, who isn’t gonna achieve things? If that’s a reality you’ll create, or do you actually view yourself as a good worker, the kind of worker that you would employ, the kind of boss that you would love to work for. That all matters.
And self confidence is your and this is so huge. Self confidence is your belief in your ability to do new things and to figure things out and to be resourceful, and you’re gonna need that. Both sides. When you’re the boss, you’re doing things you’ve never done before, and you’re leading people to do things that they have never done before too. And so you need to have confidence, self confidence that you are going to be able to figure things out along the way.
And if you don’t have that self confidence, that’s gonna trickle down into everything that you do. And as the employee, you’re constantly doing new things that you’ve never done before, so you need to have the self confidence that you can actually figure those new tasks and projects out along the way instead of believing that you can only do things that you’ve done before. So the PGSD process that’s taught inside PGSD is going to help you really become the kind of boss that you want to work for and the kind of employee that you would hire, which is the goal. Like, again, there’s so much talk around. Be your own boss and all of this.
Yeah. But be your own boss, the kind of boss that you would actually like to work for. We don’t want you to just find yourself in this situation where you’re your own boss and you hate working for yourself. Really think about this. If right now you’re like, I just wanna be my own boss because I hate working for my current boss.
If you look at it, you’re probably a less empowering boss than they are. But we just don’t notice it because it’s ourselves, and we don’t think of it this way. So I really wanted to introduce this idea to you if you haven’t thought about it before that you are your own boss, you’re your own employee. Those are two separate hats that you’re wearing in your business. It can be so helpful to at least try and wear them at different times instead of always trying to wear them both at the same time together.
But when you can see things that way and you can start to examine your relationship with yourself with a little bit of distance, it can be easy to see where you could improve as a boss and as an employee for yourself as well. The more you release your handbrake, the better boss and employee you’ll be, which will help you release it even more and on and on it goes. It’s totally okay if you realize that you haven’t been the best boss to yourself. Don’t beat yourself up about that. It’s truly okay.
It’s very normal, but we don’t wanna just have you assuming that you are going to be the best boss you’ve ever had without doing some intentional work around it. Inside PGSD, we teach you how to be the kind of boss that you would actually like to work for and the kind of employee who is able to get shit done without burning out. So with that said, I hope this episode has helped you. I hope you’re having a beautiful day, and I will talk to you in the next episode.
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If you are ready to get out of your own way, you want to get inside my program, Perfectionists Getting Shit Done. And we are currently open for enrollment, but not for much longer. Doors are closing on Friday 11 April 2025 at 11:59PM Eastern Time. So not long left.
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You don’t have to keep struggling with procrastination and overthinking and burning yourself out, spinning your wheels, trying to build your business around everything else you’ve got going on in your life and getting nowhere. Instead, you can sign up for PGSD, learn how to get your perfectionist mindset working for you, instead of against you with our practical tools and support and have your business actually be growing.
So samlaurabrown.com/pgsd is where to go to sign up. I hope to see you inside the program.