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The Perfectionist

First the good news

you do not have a problem with over-commitment! You know your priorities and you try hard to live a life that reflects them. You pay close attention to detail and you work at tasks until they are completed the right way. You’re an “all or nothing” kind of person. Go big or go home.

The bad news is that your attention to detail and your desire to get things done correctly means you spend waaaaaay too much time on each task. If you were honest, nothing is ever quite done to your satisfaction–even when you work on it for hours or days. Sometimes, the only reason you stop a task is because you’ve run out of time. And forget delegating! You’ve learned if you want something done right, you do it yourself.

What people may not know about you is If you can’t complete a task or project from start to finish, you won’t start it at all. This is paralyzing. It means you have many projects and piles of clutter looming over you, screaming for your attention, which causes a sense of overwhelm and dread.

Next Step for The Perfectionist

Set a Timer! When you set out to tackle an overwhelming task, determine the amount of time you will relegate to it, and set the timer. When the timer goes off, stop. Go do something else. As a fellow Perfectionist, I assure you, I use a timer every single day. It helps me begin giant projects that paralyze me (“I’ll work for 15 minutes and then stop.”) or projects on which I tend to work for longer than I should. (“I will work on this newsletter for 1 hour. When the hour is up, I will hit ‘publish,’ even if it’s not perfect.”)