Tell Your Daughter – Perfectionism Cripples Careers!
Esther Stanhope, The Impact Guru
TEDx speaker, award-winning author & personal Impact expert helping FTSE 100 execs get promoted, speak like a leader & win pitches with more presence & confidence! Parent, broadcaster & 80% Perfect Club founder
I was shocked.
Perfectionism was crippling his daughter’s career!
A very good friend of mine, a fellow expert, author and speaker (let’s call him Stew) asked me if I would meet his young daughter, Alice who’s just graduated. She’s an amazing performance artist; she dances, she’s creative, she’s brilliant at acting, she sings, and she’s really keen to start her career.?
Stew asked me to share my own experience of how I got into the “Meed-ya” (the media darling ,TV, radio, the BBC) after I left college.
Many people are put off before they even start because of the competitive nature of it. I wasn’t. But I spent years working for little or no money to get my break!
It got me thinking ……
Essentially if you don’t read the full article the tip here is this…
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Don’t wait.
Don’t wait for your career to come to you.
Don’t wait to “be picked” by someone else.?
Go ahead and start doing what you want to do – even if you don’t get paid at first!
Tell you daughter (and I will tell mine).?Take Action! Don’t be perfect.
You can help your daughter or the young women (& men) in your life by gifting them membership to my 80% Perfect Club – designed to help people young and old, people like Alice, to make progress rather than block themselves before they’ve tried to move forward.
Remember you get 50% off membership to the?80% Perfect Club ?for being on my Friday Tips list – you’ll save?￡100 for the year!?It’s only ￡10 a month. Imagine,?you could make someone’s day today!
If you want to chat about gift membership or multiple membership for your team – give me a shout, I’d love to help....
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2 年Great advice! I went to a Van Gough exhibition over the weekend at Bristol's PropYard, and took this photo - my favourite one of the day.