Personal Growth Strategies: #2 Giving Up on Perfect

Perfectionists often claim that their relentless standards drive them to higher levels of productivity and excellence, but this is often the opposite. ​

​They often accomplish less due to the fear of failure and waste time paralysed by fear. High-performance people, on the other hand, keep their vision of the end-result in their minds and forge ahead, believing they will find the help they need and figure out the how-to's as they go. They are resilient, persistent, stay on target, and have confidence in their ability to see it through. They believe that there is no perfect book, movie, piece of music, or life, and the best we can hope for is moments of perfection that quickly vanish from our perception.
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It may be time to let go of the dream of unattainable perfection and focus on working on and growing towards higher performance, at whatever we decide deserves our focus.