TMI Tuesday – Perfectionist
If you’ve read many of my blog posts (you’d be in a very exclusive group), you’ve probably realized that I’m a very introspective person. I spend a lot of time analyzing my actions, my motivations (or lack thereof) for clues as to why I am who I am, and how I can improve.
As it pertains to my blogging infrequency, I’ve noticed a pattern. I start a post, an idea, but I don’t finish, because I don’t like it. Something about it is not right. And I just can’t hit that publish button, if the post is not perfect.
Perfection is subjective, at least where blog posts are concerned. But I have realized that I’ll probably never post a thing if I obsess over every word, phrase and period.
Unrealistic expectations of perfection (at least for me) can also lead to procrastination. If I don’t feel I have things worked out in my mind to the point that it’s right, I find myself not even wanting to start anything. I wonder what would have happened if Beethoven never began to write a sympathy for fear that it would be no good, or if Van Gogh never finished a painting because one brush stroke was out of place.
So I’ve decided to give myself a break, and post, good, bad or great. I may write a hundred bad posts, and one good one, but at least the one good one will get written.
Anyone else a perfectionist?
Recovering perfectionist reporting for duty.
The more involved in leadership at work and church I’ve become, as well as wanting to keep creating, I’ve had to settle for way less than perfect on way more occasions than I am comfortable with.
But it’s not all about me, right.
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i am SUCH a perfectionist. i am working on this, because i set such an impossible standard for myself that it’s crazy-making. and leaves me often frustrated with and disappointed in myself. i need to get better at accepting my own failures and shortcomings.
the hardest person for me to extend grace to is myself.
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