 Karen and I are talking about something that I bet those of you who are writers and creators deal with, which is perfectionism. So Karen's example is, you know, Karen, you said you spent a long time writing two paragraphs like longer than you would have liked, and you still felt like it's not good enough to put out there, right? How do I deal with that? Well, by the way, I want to welcome everyone watching this to comment below for how you deal with something like that. But here's how I deal with it. I create temporary limits for myself, and I do my best to practice those limits. There are two limits, okay? One is time spent on any creative project like a blog post. For example, with blog writing, this is my process. I basically do every blog post in two, actually, nowadays I do it in three sessions. So let me explain. The first session is just a few minutes where I tweet out the beginnings of an idea for blog posts. If you find me on Twitter, just twitter.com. It literally says, my about says, using Twitter to store ideas for potential blog posts, and you'll see my Twitter threads are basically like, and of course I practice creating so much that even my random ideas are okay probably now, but at least better than when I was new to creating. Anyway, so that's really my first session is sometime, I actually do this during the lunch hour. I'll take five minutes during lunch to just tweet out a potential blog post idea. And then the next couple of lunches, I will add to that thread any other ideas that are related to that topic. So that's my first session is kind of brainstorming. So every, every week I basically give myself two Twitter threads, two ideas that I'm adding to anyway. And then next week is two more ideas anyway, so that's for, and then the second session is taking my Twitter thread, or whatever brainstorming I've done, and put it into a really rough draft of, you know, in tech in the writing world, there's a technical term. It's FD, shitty first draft. Look it up. A lot of people use that term, shitty first draft. So that's the second session is just shitty first draft. You know, there's no formatting of any kind, no subheadings, you know, some paragraphs are super long, some are like one cent, nothing, just type it out as fast as I can. What could I say about this? What objections that does a reader might have? How could I address that? Is there an example I could share? Is there a related question that I might, you know, whatever. Okay. Second session. And that second session I give myself half an hour. That's a key. 30 minutes to just shitty first draft it out. And I know, by the way, that you can do this too. In 30 minutes, you know why? Because whenever I've hosted a writing class, and I give my students, I get this, seven minute timer to write a social media post. Seven minute timer. I bet you if I did this right now, you would do it too. Just about every student posts something in seven minutes. And it's usually better than what I come up with in seven minutes, which is, which is why I know you all can do it. Because I can almost assure that you are a faster writer than me, because it's just what I've noticed in my attendees and what they can do in seven minutes. English is my second language, number one. So, in a way, I've struggled off and on with English, just my whole life. So that's why I feel like most of you, if some of you English is your second issue, but if English is not your second language, you probably write faster than me just because of its through and through your bones, even more than mine. Anyway, so that's my second session is 30 minutes city first draft. And then my third session, which is another day. My fourth session, also half an hour is Polish and Polish actually so I'm sorry there is a fourth session, which is to publish it. So, fourth session takes another 30 minutes of like just putting the logistics of like putting it on my website on here or on there that kind of thing doesn't take me 30 minutes it takes its editing and publishing takes my 15 minutes. So, so I really want to encourage you to have that kind of process for yourself a workflow for your writing. And so that's one limit I set on myself. The second limit I set on myself is a work count limit. Now, that helps. And work count limits should be a range. It shouldn't just be maximum because if there's no maximum work count limit 1000 words or whatever. Yeah, technically I guess even one word is good enough for a blog post. I don't know, you know, poets, but I have a range. So I said well blog post I'd like it to be like my nose between 600 to 1500 words somewhere around there. 700 ish. I usually land somewhere around seven to 700 to 1000 words. So like when I, when I keep my word count and by the way, I show you on Google, Google document. Right. Google document has a wonderful tool where it where it's a word count tool, you know, you go to Google dot click word count, and you pay display word count while typing. Check that box and click OK. And then I, you know, you can set up when you click on the menu and sit on words. And now that you're typing, you know, give give it a second to count all the words that you're typing. And, you know, and so this is really helpful for like work count limit to say hey, I'm at 700 now or whatever you know what I mean. So you see on the bottom left. So anyway, I hope that helps as a way to practice. That's how I do it is to keep keep limits, have a clear have a clear flow and then finally I'll say this. You know, ultimately, none of us know what's good enough in terms of our creations. And I would say, we ourselves are not the right judge for the quality of our content. Only the audience is the right judge for the quality of our content. All we can do is judge ourselves based on quantity. By quantity, I mean how many things did we put out there and not judge. I don't mean to harshly judge yourself. I just mean to evaluate ourselves or to plan or to set that as a goal. I'm going to set a goal of quantity. I'll let the audience tell me about the quality. And so I just keep putting half ass things out there. And over time, whatever I can put out in my time that gets out there and almost always it's half ass because I'm a perfectionist so I only have two choices perfection or half ass and perfection takes me forever, but never put things out. I just keep putting half ass things out there and then over time I analyze the data that I put 10 plot post out there, which is a 10 really made a difference. Let me look at the data to say, well, this has this many views and this many likes versus this one has, you know, this many views and this many likes well now I know which one made more of an impact so I'll do more. So I hope that helps with, you know, so with perfectionism and creativity. Thanks. Thank you. Yes, another a gentler way of saying half ass, a more euphemism I guess a good enough. Yes, good enough. Now for me, even good enough is not good enough of a word because I tend to still berate myself or beat myself with what good enough means. So I that's why I have to use half ass is the term so use whatever term allows you to create and publish more. And that's the that's the main idea, use whatever mantra helps you to just stick to your time limit, get it out there.