Procrastination - A Four-Letter Word By Cindy Caldwell →

3. Fear of Getting It Wrong and Lack of Confidence.

Often times people will have the ambition to get the task done, but they don’t know how. If you don’t have the skills that you need, then acquire those skills. If you allow fear of not being adequate get in your way, your imagination can take over and before you know it, you can talk yourself out of being competent in any area of your life. Say you’re looking for a new job. You have a portfolio with all your marketing brochures and catalogs you’ve helped put together throughout the years, but employers are asking you to email your samples as PDFs. You’re not a designer, you don’t have a scanner or Acrobat, so you just keep putting the task off rather than go ask someone for help or go to Kinko’s and have them put your things on disc. If you need help, just ask and get the ball rolling.

4. Indecision.

It is a cousin of “getting it wrong”. Most of the time when people can’t decide how to get something accomplished, it is often because they haven’t tested their ability to make a good decision or remember making a wrong decision and don’t want to repeat it. Most decisions are not life and death. We seem to handle life and death decisions just fine. It is the “should this logo be red or purple?” that occupies the space in our minds.

My weaknesses. I just realized that I am an ordinary designer like everybody else - Fear of Getting It Wrong and Lack of Confidence & Indecision. Though I am happy to read this, at least I know this is a part of people doing design.