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Zig Ziglar - "Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly — until you can learn to do it well." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the daily quote, the podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the great News Podcast because good news should be
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  heard. Link is in the show notes.
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  Today's quote sounds wrong at first.
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  It is designed to That comes from Zig Ziglar, one of the most
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  celebrated motivational speakers and authors of the 20th century,
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  a man who dedicated his life to helping people close the gap
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  between where they are and where they want to be.
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  And he deliberately flipped one of the oldest sayings in the
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  English language on its head when he said anything worth
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  doing is worth doing poorly until you can learn to do it
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  well. I'm sure you've heard the
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  original Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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  It sounds like wisdom. It sounds like standards.
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  And buried inside it, quiet and dangerous is one of the most
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  effective excuses for never starting anything.
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  Because if it's only worth doing when you can do it well, then
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  you have to be good before you begin, and nobody is good before
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  they begin. So the thing stays undone, the
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  business stays unstarted, the book stays unwritten, the
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  conversation stays unhad, the new skill stays unpracticed, and
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  the gap between where you are and where you want to be stays
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  exactly the same while you wait to be ready.
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  Ziggler understood this trap better than almost anyone.
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  The enemy of beginning isn't laziness, it's perfectionism.
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  It's the internal voice that says not yet that tells you to
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  wait until the conditions are right, the skills are sharp, the
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  plan is airtight. And because those conditions
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  never quite arrive, not yet becomes never, his reframe is
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  both simple and revolutionary. Of course the first attempt will
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  be poor. Of course the early work will be
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  rough. Of course the beginner's version
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  of anything will be inferior to the experts version.
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  That's not a reason not to start.
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  That's what starting is. Doing it poorly is the first
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  step on the path to doing it well.
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  And you cannot skip it. You can only go through it.
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  The second-half of the quote is where the whole thing comes
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  alive until you can learn to do it well.
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  Ziegler wasn't giving permission to stay mediocre.
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  He was giving permission to begin, and trusting that if
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  something is worth doing, the doing of it, even poorly, will
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  teach you what you need to know to do it better.
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  Progress doesn't wait for perfection.
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  It builds through imperfect repetition.
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  The first episode of this podcast was poor by any
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  objective measure. The audio wasn't perfect.
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  I even though I know a lot about audio, I used too many plug
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  insurance, tried to make it sound even better and I made it
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  sound worse. The delivery was a little rough.
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  I had never done a solo podcast before.
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  I'd always been either Co hosting or doing roundtable
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  discussions. The structure was still finding
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  itself. If I had waited until I could do
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  it perfectly, I'd have never started at all.
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  Every episode since has been built on top of that imperfect
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  first one. Not because I planned it that
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  way, but because Zig Ziglar is right.
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  Doing it poorly consistently is how you eventually get to doing
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  it well. So here's the question.
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  What are you waiting to be good at before you'll allow yourself
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  to begin? Because if it's worth doing,
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  it's worth doing poorly right now, today, with the skills you
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  currently have and the knowledge you don't yet possess.
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  Start, Do it badly and learn. Then do it less badly and repeat
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  over and over again. That's not a shortcut around the
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  work. That's exactly how the work gets
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  done. That's going to do it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.