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Prevail over perfectionism

Prevail over perfectionism

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Prevail over perfectionism

- Do any of these situations sound familiar? When working on a project, your focus is on the product, not the process. You believe effort and attention are not enough. Results must always be productive, and most importantly, successful. When things go wrong or you do not achieve at a certain level, you feel that you have failed. You're afraid that you won't be able to live up to your own expectations. You believe that if you continually achieve and look good doing it that that will make you successful and happy. However, when you do achieve success, the satisfaction from it is temporary and fleeting. You try to beat others to the punch by being your own harshest critic. You are very conscious of situations that would give others the perception that you are not perfect and you feel secretly judgemental of people who fall short of perfection. These are some of the hallmarks and manifestations of perfectionism, the…

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