Stress Management 101 – Letting Go of Being Perfect Are you your hardest critic? Are your self-expectations unreasonable? Do you feel like a failure if you are not performing perfectly in all areas of your life, including work? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions chances are you are a perfectionist…and you are stressed. Being a perfectionist generally means you don’t believe that anything you do will ever be good enough, so you keep working, and working, and working. It can be the root cause for procrastination, for feeling overworked, under-appreciated and overwhelmed. If you are constantly in the quest for being “the best” you can easily lose sight of your true priorities. In the dictionary “good” is defined as: “effective, efficient, beneficial, valid, healthy, or sound.” What if you believed you could be happy without being all things to all people perfectly? What if you could truly embrace the idea that “good is good enough”? Would you have more freedom, more peace of mind, better mental and emotional health, more success, more fun? Here are some self-coaching questions to ask yourself if you are a perfectionist: What expectations do I have of myself and why? What are my top five priorities? What is the most important thing I can do to align my values and my actions? What can I let go of, or say “No” to, because it does not align with my priorities or values? How is my need to be a perfectionist helping me? how is it harming me? How can I let go of being a perfectionist and still maintain my standards? What is my definition of “doing a good job”? What is one thing I could do this week to let good be good enough? How would your life be different if instead of striving for perfection you were constantly striving for fulfillment and success? clearvisioncoach/blog/2012/12/stress-management-101-letting-go-of-being-perfect/
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:13:58 +0000
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