Dangerous Perfectionism as an obstacle on our way to success…

Two Minutes About Dangerous Perfectionism:

Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope you are having a terrific day! Let’s breathe and smile.

There’s an amazing book “Magic of Thinking Big”. It talks about failure diseases: detalitis, excusitis and procrastination. This is a must read book if you care about your own success. I wish I read it 30 years ago.

When I was growing up, I got all three of these diseases. I won’t go into details, I was discussing it already in my other episodes. Today I’d like to discuss my observation about my own personal trait, which is perfectionism. You may or may not relate. I grew up measuring and calculating everything. I had to know exact process from start to finish before getting into anything. Thanks God I educated myself enough to recognize the downside of it.

This is what I discovered so far about myself. Again, this is my story.

– Perfectionist is a great procrastinator. Everything has to be perfect, circumstances, plan of action etc. In reality it never is.

– Perfectionist is very rigid implementing any ideas. If it has to be done, here’s the only way to do it. Sometimes I still have to face it even today.

– Next one took me a while to recognize. Perfectionist cannot tolerate failure and criticizing. That’s why I’d rather not get involved in something I can potentially not be perfect in. Here’s where excusitis comes in disguised as a freedom of choice. Yes, our mind can rationalize anything, and I am guilty of that.

How many times I said I liked or did not like something. Was it really so or did I make myself believe that I did not like something I could potentially fail in? Just a thought. You may borrow it and think about what you like or don’t like and why?

Here’s a book I was talking about. You can get a FREE audiobook at Audible through Amazon:

“Magic of Thinking Big” by David J. Schwartz

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Jin

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