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You Don’t Have to Know Everything Before You Start Something

Have you heard about the need-to-know-everything personality disorder? Scientists call it OCPD – Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. Perhaps that’s the most intense form of achieving perfectionism. Nevertheless, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves as boss babes. We act as if we have to know everything and have it all together all the time. Trying to be a superwoman all the time is a drain, isn’t it? Since you are a person with a growth mindset or are a small business owner doesn’t mean to be perfect at all times. You also tend to feel as if you cannot get started in your field without being an expert in every aspect of it. However, you don’t have to have a Ph.D. in entrepreneurship to succeed in your businesses or start achieving your goals.

Focusing too much on your weaknesses is the best way to ensure stagnancy. Of course, acknowledging your weaknesses and working on them can make you a better businesswoman and help you grow your business to new heights.

However, you cannot succeed if your mind stays locked on the things you can’t do. We think that we have to be perfect because of the media and movies, and that’s not true.

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Businesswomen or women who want to be in business tend to critique everything about themselves and convince themselves that they aren’t ready to take the leap because they are not masters in all aspects of their business.

I’ll admit that as a woman, there’s extra pressure on us to succeed. We have a few more obstacles to jump over than our counterparts, but it is unhealthy to expect perfection as if you are not a human being.

There are so many ways that this type of behavior and thinking is harmful to our future success. Let’s look at some of the biggest ones:

Why Don’t You Have to Know Everything Before You Start Doing Something?

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1. If we wait to know everything, we’ll never get started

There is so much to learn in this world, and things are forever changing. You’ll never feel ready to begin if you feel like you have to know everything.

Online bloggers use things like SEO experts, ghostwriters, and graphics creators. These jobs exist because people in the online business don’t know how to do it all, and they’ve learned that they don’t have to in order to be successful.

2. Focusing on weaknesses can cause you to lose self-confidence

If you lose confidence in your craft, it can turn into you losing your passion. Confidence in your abilities and talents is the key to move forward. We can always be better at something, but you have to believe that you are now good enough to take you to the next level.

Without that belief, you won’t feel it worth doing because, in your mind, you suck at it.

Studies show that many men and women over thirty who are in a career not related to their passion went in that direction because they gave up due to not feeling they were good enough or that there were too many people out there better than them.

3. Your work will suffer

Negative thoughts affect your work. If you think your work isn’t good enough, it won’t be. The quality of your work will directly match your mindset about it. You went in thinking of yourself as a failure, and so that is what you became.

4. If we are ‘experts,’ we won’t ask the right kind of questions

Knowing and being okay with not knowing everything opens the door to asking questions to better your business and expand your knowledge. Feeling as if you have to know everything will make you hesitant to ask anything because you don’t want to seem as inexperienced as you feel you are.

There really isn’t any such thing as a stupid question in business. If you want to know something, anything, you have to ask. Acknowledging that you don’t know everything keeps the mind curious instead of hesitant.

5. Trying to be an expert at everything is actually pretty pointless

Successful entrepreneurs have said that they don’t waste their time trying to be experts at everything. That’s why they have a team. Having a team when starting a business is the best way to get things off the ground.

Find a group of experts in their own field who know how to do things that you don’t so that your combined skills can create a masterpiece. You can’t do it all on your own anyway, so why are you trying to learn it all on your own?

Studies have shown that it is better to hire someone BETTER at you to do things in the business that aren’t your core strengths.

Your time is better spent supervising other experts to use their skills to help promote your vision. That way, you can spend your time working on the things you are an expert at and better those core strengths.

Don’t wait until you have four degrees in writing to begin writing your book. Utilize your strengths and put your best foot forward WHILE working on your weaknesses. Facts are nobody knows everything. There is never too much learning to be done.

Several successful people have started businesses that are worth millions of dollars today yet have never even been to business school.

Some bloggers haven’t taken a single writing class and can do it full time. Some YouTubers started not knowing a thing about editing or video creation, but they had unique ideas and learned how to edit as their channel grew or hired editors.

A Word From AlignThoughts,

You will learn all the things you need to in time. The focus should always be on your strengths. If you don’t know how to do something, learn the skill or outsource it. Don’t let your pride get in the way of your business or career success. You can never give anything that power.

I know that we all WANT to be the smartest person in the room, but studies also show that surrounding yourself with people smarter than you are better for your overall self-development and success.

To succeed, you have to do what’s best for your growth, not your ego.

The best time to start dominating your goals is right now.

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Rikki Parker
Rikki Parker
Rikki is a blogger and writer who is all about self-empowerment, positivity, and growth. She loves writing and inspiring people. She also writes on her personal blog and runs a YouTube channel. Helping other people drives her, and Rikki loves doing it full-time!

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