From artists and students to business executives and entrepreneurs, being productive while at the same time maintaining excellence in your work is a very tricky task and tremendously hard to suceed at. Productivity doesn't always equal perfection, though perfectionism most often leads to lack of productivity. In the process of doing everything perfect, you fall short on both yours and your company's (assuming that you work in one) expectations. These expectations suggest you being productive, creative and meeting deadlines. Consequently, getting stuck in your own mind while trying to come up with the perfect idea leaves you with nothing.
Quoting Robert M. Pirsig, "anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than 'laziness' is the real reason you find it hard to get started." So, in order to go beyond anxiety, we need to realize that perfectionism isn't merely about being meticulous, but it goes deeper in our psyche. It's about fear - fear of failure, which kills more ideas than failure itself ever does.
Once we have identified the problem, we must focus on fixing it rather than sustaining it. Here's a few tips to get you started:
Quoting Robert M. Pirsig, "anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than 'laziness' is the real reason you find it hard to get started." So, in order to go beyond anxiety, we need to realize that perfectionism isn't merely about being meticulous, but it goes deeper in our psyche. It's about fear - fear of failure, which kills more ideas than failure itself ever does.
Once we have identified the problem, we must focus on fixing it rather than sustaining it. Here's a few tips to get you started:
- Be aware of being a paralyzed procrastinator.
- Face your fear by going ahead with your next idea, regardless how stupid it might sound at first.
- Let passion be your motivation and not the fear of judgement.
- Value the process. Learn through trial and error.
- Focus on the big picture.
- Have confidence in yourself.
Always have in the back of your head that you can't photoshop your personality, but as long as you are your authentic self success is inevitable.
90% perfect and shared with the world
always changes more lives than 100% perfect
and stuck in your head.
Jon Acuff
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