My heart dropped into my stomach this week.
The new Saudi client I’ve been working with for my Hedge Fund dropped a bombshell…
They wanted my first portfolio in Saudi stocks ready by January. Not later in the year like we’d talked about – January.
My brain went into mini-meltdown mode.
I felt completely frozen at first.
So, I grabbed my trusty Remarkable tablet and started breaking things down. (Love that thing, by the way. It’s like having a digital brain.)
Here’s what hit me like a slap of cold water to the face:
I could pull this off. But I needed to play it smart.
No fancy bells and whistles. Just keep things simple and focus on what matters most to create a minimum viable product (portfolio).
I had to let go of making everything perfect.
Perfection leads to overthinking, overanalysis, and paralysis. Getting it done matters more than making it flawless.
Lots of stuff can be improved on the go and that’s totally ok.
Now I’m on track to deliver our project in three weeks. It won’t be perfect, but it will be good.
This “minimum viable product” method just saved my project with the Saudi client and it can help you too.
Meg Whitman (CEO of eBay, then HP) once said:
“Perfection is the enemy of good enough, because if you don’t start something you can’t measure it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. If you can’t improve it, you can’t perfect it.”
This is how I think all traders should approach trading.
Get it done today. Perfect it later.
Tomas
