The Perfection Trap: How It Nearly Killed My Woodworking Business
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2024
- This took me 10 years to learn and almost ruined my woodworking business. I go over how being perfect almost ruined my woodworking CNC business, how the change impacted my business, and what I did to fix it!
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Great advice brother. I did that for a long time focusing on the tiniest little flaws in a project when in the end I am the only one who would ever even see it. I'm sure lost many potential clients on that time.
I get the message here, but while watching this video, I couldn’t help thinking about the state of manufacturing today. As someone old enough to have watched the transition in my lifetime of companies making quality products that last a long time to making things that barely outlast the warranty, I would like to offer one piece of advice. Never sacrifice quality for efficiency. I get that you want to maximize profit, but making the best product should be the #1 goal, not making it the fastest. Just a little “old guy” advice. 😉
You're going to have to change you motto to "If you ain't cutting it close enough, you ain't cutting it right", 😂
Haha yeah, I should, that’s awesome
I’m a huge fan of yours Ryan and I am thrilled at your success. But this video does not surprise me at all. Having been a British Army Captain and the an Operations Manager and then COO of tech companies it’s easy for me to spot people that make the mistakes you’ve made. Efficiency does not necessarily equal effectiveness. One can be very efficient at being ineffective. Thank you for sharing this. I’m sure a lot of people will benefit from your lived experience in this regard. Onwards and upwards my friend. Love your channel.
Alex, thank you for the comment, I’m learning this through the school of hard knocks as rapidly as I can! All of this has really helped me understand everything from the ground up, like I said in the video, it’s not going to get a ton of views, but those who watch should be better off because of it.
@@cutting-it-close definitely need more folks like you pointing out these lessons mate. And when I said I wasn’t surprised that wasn’t a dig. People with an attention to detail like you are obsessed with efficiency. And it’s so hard to let go of that in favor of effectiveness. Kinda like OCD where to back off on the efficiency is almost impossible as I means admitting to wasted time on the wrong things. I applaud you on letting go and becoming more effective. Like I said…big big fan of yours mate. What you have achieved already is incredible and inspiring.
Have a large workshop with 37 cncs but in the steel sector, built over 11 years... we refer to it as FFP ie Fit for purpose.
Busy setting up a shop for wood sector in Europe and love to see that everything I know from steel sector will be highly useful in wood sector ;) thanks for shortening the learning curve
Where in Europe ?
Portugal.
I am shocked to see the prices that Europeans are paying because manufacturing companies are inefficient, overloaded in overheads and labour intensive. And the client ultimately pays for it which I don't think is fair.
My strength and experience lies in maximising automation and keeping costs down.
Good video. Never heard the term GITMO but I understand. every project has a small imperfection to some degree. I work hard to minimize this but it happens. I still sweat the delivery/install but getting better at it. I like to think it keeps me humble and always strive to do better but there's always a point where enough is enough. Thank you for the video
Another great lesson, true i got trapped in the perfection loop as well and true, the last 5% of detailing a product takes the same time of developing 90% of a new one. Thanks!
To be honest, Festool isn't really seen too much in millwork shops, like yours, it's more marketed to a cabinet shop/installer.
Woodpeckers are more seen with "influencer" type amateurs and custom makers.
And Microjig is more of a hobbyist set of tools.
I wasn't looking and thought you said Gitmo. 😮 🤣🤣🤣
Customers will never know what features you didn't include, or how things could have been.
It leaves you open for better models and features in the future while making customers happy today.
Great stuff Ryan !!!
Thank you, this lesson was so big for me, I hope it helped!
Thank you! It was useful. Hope to use GETMO more often.
Love it my wife is a perfectionist it was killing me
super helpful
Excellent video Ryan. I'm sure I speak for a lot of woodworkers, laser folks, cnc folks when I say I am my own worst enemy/critic when it comes to this. Spend more time perfecting things rather than the using the GETMO mentality.
Excelente, gracias!
Great stuff!
Thank you, I hope this helped!
Where did you get that flap sander??
I'm afraid that my customers will see the flaws that I see when creating a product and not be satisfied/leave a bad review. I also find that I have very high standards for what I intend a product/item to be and I'm not satisfied unless it meets this expectation. How can I apply GETMO when I have these types of concerns?
Your friends and regular customers will be your guides to help you recognise when it's good enough.
Friends and family are also your biggest critiques a lot of time too. No matter what I did, they always found something wrong even still today! Trust in yourself more than anyone else!
How much is the Academy going to cost?
Great 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Did this help you?
I am not a wood worker but electronics engineer so i enjoyed it..... ✅
Awesome!! Thank you for watching, hope I can keep you watching in the future as well!
Diminishing returns!
I will say that is the smallest scrap pile I have ever seen 🤪
Has your list of book recommendations changed since that old video?
The One Thing, is so important on that list, and my favorite book of all time that I did not talk about is called Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill. Its long, but sooooo good! written back in 1920's.
I’ve always preferred, “Good enough for government work.”
I agree with what you’re saying, though "Perfection" (to me) is something you strive for…. Not something you’re ever able to achieve! Also (to me) it’s hard to move on if/when I see flaws because I know if I see it then what makes me think/believe someone else can’t/won’t see them either. Plus I don’t wanna loose anyone over "quality"!Granted you are very successful & obviously "GETMO" works for you & your business, but all I can do is try GETMO out for myself one piece at a time. 👍