I had a job interview today, but now I’m back at home. Time to get down to the real thing.

Perfect or not!

I’m with you on the perfect thing too. That’s me down to a T and it often stops me from doing stuff I set out to do as well. Bad habit! But, when the time is right, I always act and follow my dreams, ideals. I know you will too.

As for Kathy’s dream, yeah, it’s hilarious.

I swear that I could hear you saying “Brett! I’m talking to you!” as I read this.

I am on vacation this week, and just about ready to get my arse in gear on that thing we talked about not long ago.

My problem? I’ve wanted it to be perfect. Problem with that? Impossible.

So unless I start – it will never happen. Thanks again for the reminder today.

(PS – I always go back to read your story of how you got to where you are. It makes me think “I can do this too”.)

I’ve read that book too – and I do need to keep referring back to it. It’s not that I have lots of fears – nowhere near as many as I had a few years ago. But those I do have can really get me down – and I can put them off for months.

And it’s rarely the doing part that I fear – it’s the outcome. But it’s the tasks where I don’t have complete control of the outcome that I struggle with most.

I know how you felt about the lack of dedication from your cleaners back then. I guess I’m facing similar issues right now with some aspects of my own business. A good friend actually told me I was being very strict and picky but my reply was: ‘why pay someone to do work for me if it isn’t up to my standards?’

Some of us choose to walk through life blind-folded, not really caring about anything, while people like you and me have compassion and certain standards. Therefore we will always struggle more against the tide of brackish water. But eventually we will end up in clean, fast-flowing water while the others get stuck for life in their little dirty whirlpools!

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. It just goes to show that taking action is key to getting rid of fear, or at least take the sting out of it. It worked for you, it worked for me too and it will work for anybody keen enough to try.

When I wrote this post I was actually thinking of you… no kidding, and to see you came round and stopped by is wonderful, if not a little freaky.

However, I HATE cleaning. I mean – I know how to do it – and do it well – but I absolutely HATE doing it.

Some people LOVE cleaning. They love the process – they love looking at the difference they’ve made. I’ve heard of these people – but could never find one to hire!

I was really hoping to start my business and then hire others to actually do the cleaning – and what I discovered about myself is I HATED going around and “fighting” with my employees about what needed to be done… which is EXACTLY what I dealt with when I hired these people to clean my house – it’s just now I was fighting with them DAILY… PLUS marketing the business!!!

So, I ended up doing the cleaning… because that was the lesser of two evils.

I closed my business when I dreamed I got a job as a fry cook at McDonalds – came home REAKING of grease and announced, “At least it’s better than cleaning houses!”

Oh, and when I closed my cleaning business – I actually had one client break down in tears. She too had the same problem I did – which was getting someone to clean “properly”.

I learned a LOT from that “failure”… I loved the marketing part – I loved the “branding” part … I even loved creating the check lists for my employees which I had hoped would encourage them to do what they needed to do
(it didn’t). I just didn’t love harping on lazy people who wanted a paycheck for doing nothing OR the cleaning part.

However, I wouldn’t change a THING today – because I learned more from that 14 month venture than I did in 4 years of college!!!

It also helped me to “overcome” my fear of starting a business. Every one since then has been a “it can’t be worse than the cleaning biz!”