The more you practice, the more proficient you become.

At first, the practice is a royal pain in the behind, and you experience a healthy dose of frustration when you don’t see immediate results that you had hoped for.

You must practice the basic fundamentals of achieving results if you want your goal to be achieved.

Low achievers have a kind of blasé, laissez-faire attitude, when it comes to preparation. While high achievers prepare well and practice in advance to perform at their very best, low achievers are satisfied with being second-rate. They have forgotten or may not know what a first-rate result is and that it consists of hours of preparation and practice.

The practice range is where your skills are refined, honed, dissembled and eventually reassembled.

Attention to every detail is mission critical.

• handled more supercars than any A-list celebrity or athlete.
• developed a reputation for being the best in the world at what he does.
• raving clients that express deep devotion and loyalty to his services.
• the audacity to charge up to $5000 to wash, wax and detail a car.
• such exceptionally high standards and proudly refers to himself as a perfectionist.

Paul Dalton has been haled as “the best car wash in the world” by Autocar magazine, but an average invoice of $550 gives you a clue that this is more than your average shampoo and polish.

His company Miracle Detail, specializes in ‘detailing’ high-end cars, from vintage classics to supercars such as the Bugatti Veyron, and can cost anything up to a wallet-busting $5000.

To say that Paul is passionate about detailing and paintwork correction would be an understatement.

His commitment to his craft, pursuit of perfection, and exceptional attention to detail rival’s the precision a heart surgeon and has led to his reputation as being the best in the world.

So what can you learn from Paul Dalton and his perfectionism?

1. If you truly want to develop a reputation as being the “best” in your chosen profession, than accept that the pursuit of perfection is mandatory.

2. If you pick the right target audience and deliver fanatical, over the top service, you will be be able to claim premium prices and long-term client loyalty.

3. Embrace your perfectionism, promote it, and use it as a powerful and sustainable competitive weapon.

So what do you do if your performance is not currently superior to everyone and everything else around you?

Easy. Decide to deliver fanatical results, and deliver them – starting right NOW!

There will NEVER be a day nor a job that does not provide the opportunity for a sensational performance.

If you own a business or work for one, you must be able to engineer your performance so that is PROFOUNDLY superior, thus separating you from everyone in the marketplace.

Paul Dalton did, and so can you. That is if you want to succeed badly enough!

Perfectionism inspires the artist to create what the mind imagines.

A: Yes!

• It is a blessing when it is the driving force for great achievement.
• It is a curse when the quest for great achievement creates chaos, neglect, and imbalance in other areas of your life.
• It is a blessing when it inspires the artist to create what the mind imagines.
• It is a curse when the mind becomes too tunnel-visioned and one-dimensional.
• It is a gift when the winemaker persists in finding the precise grape, climate, texture.
• It is a curse when the pursuit of the perfect grape negatively impacts the bottom line.
• It is a gift when the architect pays the attention to detail that makes the building an edifice of beauty, safety, representation and functionality.
• It is a curse when the planning process never ends and gets lost in far too much minutia resulting in wasted opportunity.

Perfectionism ensures that the chef fully comprehends the blending and interaction of ingredients down to the microscopic compounds in the dishes that they create.

Perfectionism helps the composer, poet, and writer to craft a work of beauty from random words which in turn touches the heart and mind.

It is perfectionism that inspires an exceptional web designer to use a series of keystrokes to turn ordinary code into an extraordinary website.

Perfectionism has also given us some of our most wondrous works of art that are both visually and intellectually appealing.

Perfectionists search for ways to make the complex simple, visualize the perfect outcome, and work with an obsessive sense of conviction to make their vision a reality.  

Yes, perfectionism is both a blessing and a curse. Learning to balance between pragmatism and perfection is a difficult act, one that takes time to learn as the perfectionist often acts from a position of high integrity, ethical sensitivity and compelling idealism.