Present Over Perfect

[Music] present over perfect I spend too much time in my work trying to help people down from this ridiculous notion that they’re trying to be more perfect we hear a lot about authenticity but we still try to be perfect and we don’t need to we need to be present being present is where the Perfection comes comes out present being in the moment with your audience with the people you’re meeting with the people you’re pitching to being present not reciting something perfect from the past being present is what it’s about so I really want to Advocate this idea present over perfect because presence is here and now it’s the only real thing you have past gone future not here yet we live in one moment after another after another now I happen to learn have learned over years to enjoy those moments I love each moment I love it I love this moment oh I love this moment oh I love this moment that’s is what I’m like I love the moment that’s why I have so much joy in my life because I think it’s fascinating to exist but I was like Luke Skywalker and Empire Strikes Back always your mind on the future never you mind on where you are what you’re doing you know I was always in the future actually I was in two places at once split in conflict of The Baggage of the past and the goals yet to achieve all of this didn’t didn’t take me where I wanted it to I you know truth is I went to a lot of pretty interesting places but I didn’t find Joy or if I did it’s when I forgot all about that stuff and found the moment so now I live in the moment I love life because I love this moment this tiny little sliver in which I can feel see and think I can react and sense and exist that is what’s fascinating and it is what is missing in your presentation it’s what’s missing when your team goes to pitch H seemed a little flat didn’t quite land we’re not quite connecting with our audiences like we should the moment is where the answer lies not in getting it perfect not in scripting it out not in memorizing and practicing although you should practice I’ll reconcile that in a minute the magic is in the moment and your experience of that actual moment is key have you ever heard somebody say you know they get up on I don’t know it’s like a wedding that’d be perfect hey don’t forget to stop and enjoy it don’t miss it be there experience it quit trying to get it perfect so that you can remember it later pass has gone told you that already you know present when you get your teams to go into an interview sales pitch orals presentation short list interview whatever you want to call that where you win the job against the competitor you’re going to win it by being real with them I once lost a job and we lost it as a team because we were working too hard on being perfect and the team that won you know we we asked our Prospect why we didn’t win and they said well they just came and talked to us you can present you can talk that’s not the point you have to be there for real and that’s what I’m advocating here so I said I’d reconcile these two things like rehearsal and being perfect I rehearse to get a sense of it but I never memorize my words this thing that I’m Vlogging out right now is planned there’s a sequence I practice to get a sequence down but I am delivering with the words of this moment I am trying to see you even though I can’t access you you’re camera that I’m looking at but I see you in there in my my mind’s eye and my heart’s eye I can see you through there and I’m being here with you so rehearsal is good because you get a better sense of managing time and a man managing your sequence but don’t memorize the thing find your words in the moment because the moment is the important thing so close I will close where I started perfect is relevant authentic you is what matters so please as you weigh all of the scales of the different factors that that control and regulate your outcomes in your world just remember this present over perfect and that’s how you make something real in the magic of a moment [Music]