Are your perfectionist tendencies keeping you stuck between a rock and a hard place?
Balance is something I’ve fought for all my life.
I use the term “fight for” deliberately, because I haven’t found it easy and my other extreme is putting my head in the sand.
As a recovering perfectionist, sometimes I feel that if I can’t do something properly, I shouldn’t bother at all.
Yet this is a furphy. After all, 3 x 10 min walks around the block is better than nothing, and recent research tells us that it’s even better than 1 x 30 min walk around the block on some markers!
Throughout my career I’ve felt I’ve needed to choose between
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Doing everything or doing nothing
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Going at it like a bull at a gate or not even trying
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Effort or ease
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The Masculine or The Feminine
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Feast or famine
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Flat out like a lizard drinking or lazing around on the couch … drinking! ????
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Always on or always off and
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Never giving up and always letting go.
My perfectionist tendencies have kept me constantly choosing between a rock and a hard place, and feeling guilty when things didn’t work out.
Balance will only come when I make peace with this part of myself and with that comes real impact.
CONFESSION TIME – Does this sound like you? How do you find the balance between on and off? Do you have any advice for others? Or do you need help with this?
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