Perfectionism & Self Sabotage

What is the Secret to Accomplishing More?

Some people take pride in their drive to be perfect. Take it from a recovering perfectionist, perfectionism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Perfectionism wastes time, creates stress, and stands in the way of your success.

Doing a good job isn’t the same as seeking perfection. Ideally, a task completed at a good enough will ensure success. Something the perfectionist will find totally unacceptable.

When you avoid perfection, you can accomplish more toward success:

Perfection isn’t possible. Nothing has ever been perfect in the literal sense of the word. You might as well go looking for a unicorn.
Perfection is a waste of time. Perfection requires a lot of time and effort – more time and effort than the end result is worth. You’re not allocating your primary resources intelligently if you’re trying to be perfect.
You get less done. When you try to be perfect, you cut yourself short of enough time to get everything done. Your boss needs her report. She doesn’t need something to submit to the Smithsonian to preserve for future generations. You can’t get your work done if you’re focused on perfection.
The need to be perfect is a sign of insecurity. The drive for perfection is an attempt to compensate for a perceived lack of adequacy. When you believe you aren’t good enough as you are, it’s common to believe that doing everything perfectly will prove that you are capable and adequate. That’s a heavy burden to carry through life.
The need for perfection leads to procrastination. It can be tough to even take the first step if you believe that the outcome must be perfect.
Perfection is unhealthy. Perfectionists are more prone to heart disease, anxiety, and mental health issues. The quest for perfection causes stress. Stress is damaging to the body and mind.
You can’t work well with others if you need to be perfect. People have little patience for perfectionists. Everyone else wants to get things done and get on with their lives. You can accomplish much more with the help of others.
Perfection leads to frustration. That frustration leads to depression, anxiety and unnecessary stress which can result in health issues.
Perfection is an enemy of success. Perfectionist avoids failure. Success often includes failures along the way. Perfection and success aren’t compatible.
Perfection leads to unreasonable expectations. There are times when we need to be perfect or near-perfect, such as when constructing a bridge or performing surgery. But for most of us, there is room for a margin of error. Especially, when it doesn’t make a big difference in your end results.
Perfection is rooted in anger. Perfectionists feel contempt for anything less than perfection. This isn’t healthy. It also makes you unpleasant to be around. No one will ever meet your standards and your anger towards them isn’t appreciated.
Perfection and happiness are at odds. Happy people don’t feel the need to be perfect. And people that are driven to be perfect are too consumed to experience happiness. Do you know a perfectionist that you would describe as happy?

Which would you rather have – Perfection or Success?

Perfectionism requires a tremendous amount of time and gets in the way of happiness and success. Ask yourself why you feel the need to do things perfectly. Perform tasks to a level that results in success. Going beyond that point is foolish and unnecessary.

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How Limiting Beliefs Surprisingly Affect The Quality of Your Life

by Ann Rusnak 2 Comments

We all carry around numerous limiting beliefs. They profoundly affect your life in so many ways, and none of them are good and will keep you from reaching your full potential.

Your beliefs about yourself and your life have more power over your existence than you can imagine. Personal ideas and values you’ve held for a long time can block the way toward a life you desire.

You’re probably familiar with the idea of how limiting beliefs prevent the success you desire. But, were you aware of how they also create a negative impact in other areas in your life?

5 Ways Limiting Beliefs Affect the Quality of Your Life

Limiting beliefs spoil your experience of living.

You will do fewer things over the course of your life when you’re constricted by your limiting beliefs.

Close your eyes and imagine how much your life would be fuller, richer without them.
What beliefs did you identify that kept you from the scenario you just imagined
Rewrite those limiting beliefs as a empowering statements

You unintentionally harm those around you.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You affect others, including friends, with your limiting beliefs by sharing your misinformed advice. Even worse, you’ll likely teach your children false ideas that limit them. Limiting beliefs, the gift that keeps on giving, generation after generation. Is this the type of inheritance you want to pass down?

What beliefs do find yourself repeating to your children that your parents told you?
Examples: Money does not grow on trees. You got to work hard for success. No rest for the wicked. Money doesn’t buy happiness.
Start paying attention to what family motto’s you’re repeating.

You will do fewer things over the course of your life when you’re constricted by your limiting beliefs.

You’ll be ineffective.

Limiting beliefs cause you to get off track and look for alternative path, if you look for one at all. Even though you may be on the best route to achieving what you want, your beliefs can convince you otherwise. You spend a lot of time, even years, following a less direct path in an effort to follow your false beliefs. You will save some time, grief and frustration by dealing with your limiting belief instead.

Get very clear on what you want and focus on the outcome
Trust your intuition, it knows the right actions to take and don’t give into the belief that want to override it.
Take small steps in building the trust to follow your intuition

You fail to grow fully as a human being.

View your life with the purpose of eliminating your limiting beliefs and experiencing everything in the world that appeals to you.

If you only did those 2 actions, what kind of life would you have lived over the course of your lifetime?
Write out a vision for your life with no limitations. Let your imagination go.
Are you on that path right now?

Sabotaging your business profits and marketing efforts

People often start a business in hopes of living the life of their dreams. You bring those same beliefs into your business and they will profoundly influence the results you achieve for your efforts.

This is why working harder can leave you feeling stuck no matter what you do.
Your beliefs have you working against yourself.

Good news! You can eliminate your limiting beliefs and replace them with beliefs that empower you.

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Make replacing those beliefs fun by focusing on how your new empowering belief will make your life easier and enable you to enjoy the success you deserve and desire.

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Do You Know the Top Excuses Obstructing Your Success?

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No matter how impossible you might think something is to accomplish, there’s someone out there getting it done anyway. Most often, excuses are a way to justify fear of failure, fear of success, or a lack of resolve. Excuses get in the way of success and living fully.

By overcoming your excuses, success becomes much more likely!

Avoid Letting These Top 5 Excuses Sabotage the Life You Desire:

I don’t have the right education. A surprising percentage of the most successful people never completed high school. It’s true that education is required to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer, but education isn’t required in many situations.

Our society places a high emphasis on education, but it’s not always necessary. Motivation and commitment are far more valuable than education in most cases. How committed are you?

I don’t have enough money. Many of those wealthy in the present were poor in the past. Some of the biggest companies were started in a one-car garage. Money certainly makes things easier, but it’s not always necessary to get started.

A lack of financial resources is a convenient excuse to stay stuck in your current situation. The world is full of money. If you don’t have enough money to move forward, find a way to acquire more.

A lack of financial resources is a convenient excuse to stay stuck in your current situation.

I don’t have enough time. With careful planning, you can find time in your schedule for your priorities. How much extra time do you need to achieve your goals?

You might need to eliminate some of the activities that aren’t as crucial to making your dreams come true, such as club meetings.
If you regularly overextend yourself by saying Yes every time someone asks you to do something, practice politely saying No until you can sometimes make that your answer.
Delegate some of your responsibilities.
Cut down on watching television. You’d be surprised how much you can get done during the time you usually spend watching shows on TV or the internet!

It’s too late to get started. Do you think life has passed you by? An 80 year-old man climbed Mount Everest successfully. People over the age of 60 have graduated from medical school. Is it really too late? It’s possible that your age or life circumstances can make success more challenging, but it’s unlikely that it’s too late.

What can you do today to take that first step?
I found myself using this excuse until I did research on people who succeed in their later life. Do the same and use their stories for inspiration.

I don’t know how to get started. There was a time when Tiger Woods didn’t know how to play golf and Warren Buffett couldn’t even spell “stock.” It might be true that you don’t know how to get started. That just means you require some education.

There’s never been a time in history when more free information was available. You can find anything you need to get started online or at the local library. And there’s no law that states you can’t sit in the bookstore all day and read to your heart’s content.
Knowledge doesn’t replace action. Repeated action will lead to mastery. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes along the way.

If you feel that success is eluding you, thoughtfully consider the possibility that you might be making excuses. You might discover that what you thought was stopping you all along was really you! Now that you know, you can get past your excuses and on the path to success.

Imagine finally discovering limiting belief behind your excuse, which keeps you from realizing your dreams!

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