Prosperous Project Management: Being Patiently Imperfect

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Being Patiently Imperfect

I realized that we should all be patiently imperfect when learning a new skill. I just spent about 4 hours creating my first Podcast which is a 6 minutes and 11 minutes long. Why would I invest this much time in creating such a short Podcast? Because I know that the first time we do anything it takes forever, and the final result is not perfect. But the only way we can reach perfection, and have a second try, is by being willing to fail and be imperfect on the first try.

It is necessary to be imperfect at first. I tend to be impatient with the first try, and am working on being Patiently Imperfect.

How often are you Patiently Imperfect? Are you willing to fail, in your attempts to succeed? Are you willing to have a first try, so that you can have the second success?

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Name: Wayne Botha

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Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.