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I'm a perfectionist and I realized I've been making life too hard for myself. Choosing a low bar for success but keeping the ceiling high has felt like a much healthier approach.
The consultant's proverb: done is better than perfect
Between a pragmatist and a perfectionist, one of them sleeps soundly and knows what he's doing tomorrow.
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" I try to remind myself, with a history of postponing things, and not wanting to imperfectly do things. Rarely I've regretted doing to my current ability, but countless times leaving things undone.
Yeah. I have several quotes on my desktop which I've written to try to counteract my perfectionism, and one of them is
And another one is