July 28, 2022 • 9 mins
When perfection stops us from taking action - In this episode, host Karla Campos, dares you to be imperfect and take action. Hey, start podcasting from your bathtub.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Carla Campo's Live from my Bathtub. Well, I'm not live.
I'm in the bathtub, and I wanted to podcast from
my bathtub because I wanted this episode not to be perfect.
I wanted this episode just to be me blabbing to
you guys from my bathtub. But there's a point to this,
(00:25):
I swear. The whole point of this is we are
always trying to be perfect, and we want all the
perfect equipment. We want to sound the best. We want
to like put out the best podcast each time, and
(00:45):
sometimes trying to be so perfect prevent us from actually
putting out podcasts. So I said, you know what, I
haven't made a podcast in a little bit because I've
been doing other things. The PERTI into my business, right,
But as I sat here with my phone in my bathtub,
(01:07):
I don't know if you can hear the water and
bubbles crackling. I said, I'm just sitting here. But I
do need the relaxing time, right, I need to cleanse
myself common courtesy to people. You know, take a bath,
don't stink. Right, we're not children anymore, you know, dry
(01:29):
shampoo exists, all right, We're going to a different topic anyway,
trying to be perfect keeps us from actually taking action.
So if I'm focused on the perfection of making a
great podcast and I'm in my head all the time
(01:53):
about what can go wrong, what I don't have, what's missing?
Oh man, I messed up here, I said the wrong word,
it prevents me from actually putting out content. And what's
the point of a podcast? If you think about it,
it's communicating with people? Right? Do we necessarily have to
communicate perfectly each time to get our points across? Or
(02:18):
can we just grab our cell phones, which are in
our hands all the time, right, and just record a
message to connect with people to see if maybe they
share the same perspective, to see if hey, you know what,
I'm in the same place. Why don't we just make
(02:39):
podcasts from our baptobs. Why don't we just take action
and stop just trying to be perfect all the time
and see what kind of results we get? Right? Is
this podcast gonna get as many listeners as previous podcasts?
You never know? Look at social media. Think about all
(03:01):
those videos that have gone viral. Are they all perfect?
Sometimes videos that go viral are videos where there's weather
disasters that somebody took from their nineteen I don't know,
nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and five. I don't know,
Like I'm just making up a year from their footphone
(03:23):
from I don't even know what your cell phones were
becoming smart. I have to look that up. I'm sure
someone will let me know it. Because you're not podcasting
and you have access to Google, you can tell me
and be the smarty pants of the day. I appreciate it,
believe it or not. Knowledge just power, my friends. I
(03:45):
don't call it trolling when somebody doesn't agree with me.
It's just a different perspective. Wouldn't life be really boring
if everybody just agreed with you and you had nobody
to argue with on the internet? Think about it. There's
a plan to the structure of the universe. Yeah, But
we're not on that topic. We're on the topic of
(04:08):
being not able to move because we're trying to be
perfect and viral videos, like I was trying to make
a point, are not always perfect. Right. We've seen videos
of low quality getting millions of views just because of
there's a cow flying through someone's roof because of a
(04:28):
weather storm or something interesting is happening, and it didn't
have to be perfect to get that kind of result.
So that's my point today, that sometimes trying to be
perfect prevents us from actually taking action, and we might
end up getting the same results either way. You know,
even if we didn't make the perfect speech, maybe our
(04:52):
message wasn't perfect, maybe we didn't say the perfect words,
but yet the words we said communicated something that moved
somebody because they were like, hey, you know what, I
feel the same way. I haven't made a podcast episode
in how many weeks because I thought I didn't have
the time. But you know what, there's that lady Carla
Campo's over there. She was podcasting from her bathtub and
(05:14):
everything just turned out all right. So maybe I should
try doing the same thing and say ef it andF it. Okay,
you know what I'm talking about, curse word intended, But
I don't know if that would get me banned, so
I'm not gonna say it. So if it if if
I don't know, imagine we start getting banned for intent
(05:36):
because the Internet has become that way. So yeah, So
I would like to hear from you guys about times
when you were trying to be perfect and that created
in action. So instead of you know giving you a
positive result, you remained in your head and were not
(05:57):
able to move and believe it or not, it happens
to me often. This is why I chose this topic.
This is why I chose to record this from my
bathtub and show myself as vulnerable as possible, because if
you think about it, if someone comes and tries to
attack me right now in my bathtub, it's uncomfortable to
fight in the nude. It's like, can you wait till
(06:21):
I get dressed? So weekend? You know, I know, weird,
weird thoughts, that's me welcome to my brain. But doesn't
that go through your head? Moms, Like you're in the bathtub,
It's like, excuse me, this is not an appropriate time
to be assaulted or whatever, because you know I'm undressed
and I'm podcasting. Do you mind that interrupting? Do you
(06:43):
mind this is rude? Come back later, Yeah, like when
I'm sleeping and then you can't you know, I know
I'm a weird person anyway, So yeah, I want to
hear about times when your perfection or your need to
be perfect, when thoughts in your head were preventing you
(07:03):
from creating art, from creating a product, from preventing you
from actually launching something because it wasn't perfect, even though
it was highly functional, but you were like, no, I
can't launch this yet because I don't know. I feel
like I need to spell check this book I just
wrote again. I mean, even though the spell check came
(07:25):
back clean. I mean, I don't know. My brain's telling
me I gotta check it again. It can't go out yet, mustall.
And I'm not making fun of people. That's a feeling
that I go through often, so so just interesting. Have
you podcasted from your bathtub? Have you made a podcast
(07:46):
episode just like while you're jogging, while you're walking, while
you're doing something that's not necessarily sitting at a desk
with all the perfect equipment, or you know, a produced
podcast where everything's edited and you sound perfect. Have you
done that and have you gotten a good result from it?
(08:09):
So I would like to hear about that, because maybe
that's just the movement we all should, you know, go for.
And if you want to be perfect, then you're already perfect. Good.
You probably have been practicing, You probably already got it
down to a science, and it's just flows to you naturally.
I'm not saying that it's bad to go that way, right,
(08:31):
we should always strive to be better. I'm just talking
about like being not able to move or launch something
because it's not perfect, and we're like so obsessed with
being perfect that we failure to launch. That's a movie
called that Failure to Launch. I think it's with Matthew McConaughey.
(08:53):
But yeah, I mean, there's many different reasons why we
don't take action. Fear right is big one, so I'd
just love to hear stories about that. My Twitter is
handle is Social Media SaaS, also at the Entrepreneur Mom's
Club on Facebook and the Morepreneur Center. If you just
want to shoot me a message, post, shoot me a tweet,
(09:16):
and yeah, I'd love to talk about those things that
you share with me. Maybe on my ned my next episode,
which may or may not be from my baptop. Right,
I could just read these things from my phone. We
are in that age of mobile phones, so why not.
So I'm Carla Campost for the Entrepreneur Moms Podcast. Have
a freaking awesome day, bide
It's Carla Campo's Live from my Bathtub. Well, I'm not live.
I'm in the bathtub, and I wanted to podcast from
my bathtub because I wanted this episode not to be perfect.
I wanted this episode just to be me blabbing to
you guys from my bathtub. But there's a point to this,
(00:25):
I swear. The whole point of this is we are
always trying to be perfect, and we want all the
perfect equipment. We want to sound the best. We want
to like put out the best podcast each time, and
(00:45):
sometimes trying to be so perfect prevent us from actually
putting out podcasts. So I said, you know what, I
haven't made a podcast in a little bit because I've
been doing other things. The PERTI into my business, right,
But as I sat here with my phone in my bathtub,
(01:07):
I don't know if you can hear the water and
bubbles crackling. I said, I'm just sitting here. But I
do need the relaxing time, right, I need to cleanse
myself common courtesy to people. You know, take a bath,
don't stink. Right, we're not children anymore, you know, dry
(01:29):
shampoo exists, all right, We're going to a different topic anyway,
trying to be perfect keeps us from actually taking action.
So if I'm focused on the perfection of making a
great podcast and I'm in my head all the time
(01:53):
about what can go wrong, what I don't have, what's missing?
Oh man, I messed up here, I said the wrong word,
it prevents me from actually putting out content. And what's
the point of a podcast? If you think about it,
it's communicating with people? Right? Do we necessarily have to
communicate perfectly each time to get our points across? Or
(02:18):
can we just grab our cell phones, which are in
our hands all the time, right, and just record a
message to connect with people to see if maybe they
share the same perspective, to see if hey, you know what,
I'm in the same place. Why don't we just make
(02:39):
podcasts from our baptobs. Why don't we just take action
and stop just trying to be perfect all the time
and see what kind of results we get? Right? Is
this podcast gonna get as many listeners as previous podcasts?
You never know? Look at social media. Think about all
(03:01):
those videos that have gone viral. Are they all perfect?
Sometimes videos that go viral are videos where there's weather
disasters that somebody took from their nineteen I don't know,
nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and five. I don't know,
Like I'm just making up a year from their footphone
(03:23):
from I don't even know what your cell phones were
becoming smart. I have to look that up. I'm sure
someone will let me know it. Because you're not podcasting
and you have access to Google, you can tell me
and be the smarty pants of the day. I appreciate it,
believe it or not. Knowledge just power, my friends. I
(03:45):
don't call it trolling when somebody doesn't agree with me.
It's just a different perspective. Wouldn't life be really boring
if everybody just agreed with you and you had nobody
to argue with on the internet? Think about it. There's
a plan to the structure of the universe. Yeah, But
we're not on that topic. We're on the topic of
(04:08):
being not able to move because we're trying to be
perfect and viral videos, like I was trying to make
a point, are not always perfect. Right. We've seen videos
of low quality getting millions of views just because of
there's a cow flying through someone's roof because of a
(04:28):
weather storm or something interesting is happening, and it didn't
have to be perfect to get that kind of result.
So that's my point today, that sometimes trying to be
perfect prevents us from actually taking action, and we might
end up getting the same results either way. You know,
even if we didn't make the perfect speech, maybe our
(04:52):
message wasn't perfect, maybe we didn't say the perfect words,
but yet the words we said communicated something that moved
somebody because they were like, hey, you know what, I
feel the same way. I haven't made a podcast episode
in how many weeks because I thought I didn't have
the time. But you know what, there's that lady Carla
Campo's over there. She was podcasting from her bathtub and
(05:14):
everything just turned out all right. So maybe I should
try doing the same thing and say ef it andF it. Okay,
you know what I'm talking about, curse word intended, But
I don't know if that would get me banned, so
I'm not gonna say it. So if it if if
I don't know, imagine we start getting banned for intent
(05:36):
because the Internet has become that way. So yeah, So
I would like to hear from you guys about times
when you were trying to be perfect and that created
in action. So instead of you know giving you a
positive result, you remained in your head and were not
(05:57):
able to move and believe it or not, it happens
to me often. This is why I chose this topic.
This is why I chose to record this from my
bathtub and show myself as vulnerable as possible, because if
you think about it, if someone comes and tries to
attack me right now in my bathtub, it's uncomfortable to
fight in the nude. It's like, can you wait till
(06:21):
I get dressed? So weekend? You know, I know, weird,
weird thoughts, that's me welcome to my brain. But doesn't
that go through your head? Moms, Like you're in the bathtub,
It's like, excuse me, this is not an appropriate time
to be assaulted or whatever, because you know I'm undressed
and I'm podcasting. Do you mind that interrupting? Do you
(06:43):
mind this is rude? Come back later, Yeah, like when
I'm sleeping and then you can't you know, I know
I'm a weird person anyway, So yeah, I want to
hear about times when your perfection or your need to
be perfect, when thoughts in your head were preventing you
(07:03):
from creating art, from creating a product, from preventing you
from actually launching something because it wasn't perfect, even though
it was highly functional, but you were like, no, I
can't launch this yet because I don't know. I feel
like I need to spell check this book I just
wrote again. I mean, even though the spell check came
(07:25):
back clean. I mean, I don't know. My brain's telling
me I gotta check it again. It can't go out yet, mustall.
And I'm not making fun of people. That's a feeling
that I go through often, so so just interesting. Have
you podcasted from your bathtub? Have you made a podcast
(07:46):
episode just like while you're jogging, while you're walking, while
you're doing something that's not necessarily sitting at a desk
with all the perfect equipment, or you know, a produced
podcast where everything's edited and you sound perfect. Have you
done that and have you gotten a good result from it?
(08:09):
So I would like to hear about that, because maybe
that's just the movement we all should, you know, go for.
And if you want to be perfect, then you're already perfect. Good.
You probably have been practicing, You probably already got it
down to a science, and it's just flows to you naturally.
I'm not saying that it's bad to go that way, right,
(08:31):
we should always strive to be better. I'm just talking
about like being not able to move or launch something
because it's not perfect, and we're like so obsessed with
being perfect that we failure to launch. That's a movie
called that Failure to Launch. I think it's with Matthew McConaughey.
(08:53):
But yeah, I mean, there's many different reasons why we
don't take action. Fear right is big one, so I'd
just love to hear stories about that. My Twitter is
handle is Social Media SaaS, also at the Entrepreneur Mom's
Club on Facebook and the Morepreneur Center. If you just
want to shoot me a message, post, shoot me a tweet,
(09:16):
and yeah, I'd love to talk about those things that
you share with me. Maybe on my ned my next episode,
which may or may not be from my baptop. Right,
I could just read these things from my phone. We
are in that age of mobile phones, so why not.
So I'm Carla Campost for the Entrepreneur Moms Podcast. Have
a freaking awesome day, bide
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