Hello!

Today we are proudly sharing our new website with the people we work closely with. You can view it here.

This initiative was kicked off by some feedback we received that our website wasn't neurodiversity-friendly. Many of the styles we were using such as italics for quotes and writing over images are difficult for those with dyslexia to read. Autistic people may have a heightened sensory awareness and find busy pages overwhelming. We worked with Little Seed Design to create what is hopefully a more accessible website.

Our next step will be even greater accessibility such as captions. We've come across a great initiative within Scope called The Big Hack who are working with the tech industry to breakdown the barriers some disabled people face online. We're also working on making our e-learning modules more accessible. 

Working on this project has taught us loads about accessibility, but also about perfectionism (one of our favourite topics!). I've been working so hard to let go of perfectionism and adopt a 'good enough is good enough' attitude. You've probably heard me say before that perfectionism is led by fear. ("I'm not good enough so I'll just show them I can do everything perfectly to feel better about myself", being a common story). Perfectionism is setting ourselves up for failure as we're all human and therefore imperfect. 

However I slipped up when creating the website. It wasn't my perfectionism that caught me out, it was my new mantra of good enough. What was ready to go out on 1st January, and signed off by me, actually wasn't good enough. I'd been telling myself that it was. And actually, compared to other websites and industry standards, it just wasn't. I caught myself accepting mediocrity rather than excellence, and it was painful to own that and tell those working with me that I'd messed up. It was an expensive mistake too!

So what I'm rumbling with now is "Where is the edge between perfectionism and good enough?"  I want to strive for excellence and I want to get things right in terms of inclusion. It really matters to me. I don't want to get caught up in perfectionism as I know how that works out. But I also don't want to get sloppy with my output. Where's the line?

Tim Ferris and Brené Brown debate this and other topics in this wonderful interview. You can watch it here or listen via podcast here.

We're hosting a Perfectionism free webinar on the 18th March (whilst I continue to rumble with the topic!). You can sign up for your free place here. The webinar is a taster of some of the material we work through on our Daring Greatly™two-day intensive, based on the research of Dr Brené Brown.

In the meantime, I do hope you like the new website. And, more importantly, that it is easy to access and to read for you. We would of course welcome your thoughts and comments.

With love

Roxanne