• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I’m a perfectionist and I realized I’ve been making life too hard for myself. Choosing a low bar for success but keeping the ceiling high has felt like a much healthier approach.

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        5 days ago

        Between a pragmatist and a perfectionist, one of them sleeps soundly and knows what he’s doing tomorrow.

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      “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” I try to remind myself, with a history of postponing things, and not wanting to imperfectly do things. Rarely I’ve regretted doing to my current ability, but countless times leaving things undone.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah. I have several quotes on my desktop which I’ve written to try to counteract my perfectionism, and one of them is

        • Live tomorrow’s plan, today.

        And another one is

        • Sign up now, cancel later.