Tackling Perfectionism

Hello World!

Day 2 of this blog. I have made a commitment to myself that no matter what, I will write a blog post every day until the end of the month (every WEEK day I mean, I’m not a robot! beep boop)

This is difficult for my perfectionist brain. It wants to run away. It’s telling me it’s better to post once a month so that I can carefully curate a perfectly worded essay with no typos and no mistakes. It wants to filter my text through the eyes of every human out there so that I can edit it to be appealing to everyone and feel accepted. Ultimately that pressure means that I usually end up doing nothing at all because I keep waiting until I “feel like it”. And who feels like doing the impossible of writing something everyone thinks is good?

Through coaching I now know that that the feeling of wanting to do it doesn't just appear. Instead, I need to be intentional and practice accepting myself and working on my perfectionism. So I am writing this blog for two reasons:

(1) To show myself that the fear of judgement is uncomfortable but won’t hurt me.

(2) To show myself that that good enough is better than perfectly inexistent.

So this is me, showing up at B-, but still showing up. Take that, perfectionism!