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You could spend 25 minutes carefully curating an email to perfectly convey your perspective. 
Your recipient can also spend 30 seconds skimming the first line preview and making up their mind before reading the whole thing. 
The problem is your focus on controlling the perfect message does not account for more significant variables that you cannot control. 


The pursuit of perfection is not only unrealistic, it allows you to fixate on a narrow scope of variables that you can control, ignoring the rest. 
A fundamental principle of leadership is that you can influence and impact much, but control very little.
Assessing where to meticulously curate and where to accept ‘good enough’ is at the core of resource management for leaders. 


This is not to say you should callously send your emails without thought or curation. 
You can control much of the impact you have when you take the time to be thoughtful. 
The fallacy is that you can control all the variables and outcomes if you do it perfectly. 



Cafe con LFG,
- Morning Cup

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