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How I Overcame Perfectionism

Perfection was a struggle for me and even to this day it still somewhat shows up in my life but I'd say I have made great progress in handling this.

What I was specifically a perfectionist about was my assignments for school.

It was following this plan I had set for myself: 100% or else I failed.

If I went off just even a little bit I felt that I failed fully, but yet I managed to really overcome this.

Let me tell you how I did that.

Procrastinating On Work Projects Due to Perfectionism

If I got one small spelling mistake I would feel angry and upset with myself and oh I'm a failure and that would probably read it all over again.

How I overcame that was simply just understanding that since I was a complete beginner that even just showing up would make me progress.

It's kinda like if you had never posted on YouTube before, if you just record some crappy videos you will get progress because your speaking skill will naturally improve.

The thing is though, if you do that for over 30 times and you're still doing that, that's not ideal but for the first 30 times if that's all you do then you will still make progress because whenever you're not doing the thing just showing up is really good.

2. All Or Nothing Mindset

How I overcame that was simply by just understanding that that was nonsense and that there's no such thing as never making any mistakes and being 100% productive and being 100% committed to the plan and not even going off a tiny tiny bit.

I've realised that was complete nonsense and it wasn't realistic and I just said to myself as well:

whenever I get a small mess up, even to this day, I'm like, well what would the highest possible version of myself do?

Would he just completely go off the plan that he had set for himself to work hard for a short period or would he, whenever he gets one small mess up, just completely fall off and change the entire plan, or would he just push through regardless?

The answer was of course push through regardless even if small mistakes happen and that's how I learned how silly it was to be a perfectionist with all or nothing mindset.

Those are the two main ways perfectionism got into my life and that's how I overcame it.

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How I Overcame Perfectionism