How to stop becoming a perfectionist? 16 Articles

by Madison Briggs

Perfectionist was not a title I was yearning to achieve. While growing up, I learned if I did not perform a task well enough the first time, I had to go back and do it again. During my college years, while everyone was ru...read more

by Pamela A Mertz

Have you ever thought you were a failure? Do you ever compare your self to the lofty standards that society seems to adhere to? Its all around usthis incredible drive to be the best, look the best, have lots of money, d...read more

by Steve Marshall

To me the concept of perfection can raise more questions than it answers. And the idea that we have a choice to follow perfection or not? Well, I suppose if we have freedom of choice we would have this freedom of choosing ...read more

by Adrian Koh

Or, "How it can feel good not to be that good". At the very root of perfectionism lies in passionate insecurity "It does not matter how much time or how much resources it takes, if I can't get to get it just right, the...read more

by Elaine Sihera

One of the biggest confidence killers is our desire to be perfect beings. But the real question is: When we have reached perfection, what happens next? Where else do we go? Do we stop dead and say: That's enough? Do we cea...read more

by Faisal Nawaz

A perfectionist is a person who wants all things done in a perfect manner and get perfect results. There may be a few perfectionists around you also or you may be a perfectionist yourself. So how to stop becoming a perf...read more

by Christopher Kendalls

Perfectionism is an idealization of what is to be achieved, not a realistic look at the entire picture. In fact, one often misses out on what could occur when they aren't perfect, as failure is often the only way to truly...read more

by Ingrid Du Plessis

Labeled bottles in a labeled drawer in a labeled cupboard....that is how my life used to be. For nearly twenty - five years I constantly battled with everybody around me, in my desperate quest towards perfection. The c...read more

by Winfred Roach

Consider . God is a " perfectionist " ! That is , God is Perfect ! PERFECTION . There is a REASON to seek Perfection ! Everyone seeks God . When we find God , not that God is Lost , but we are , we find that PERFEC...read more

by Adele Gregory

Perfectionism can make the world a far more stressful and disappointing place than it needs to be. There are too many variables and too much that could go awry to pin one's sense of security and wellbeing on hitting such a...read more

by Bhavna

Strive for Excellence..! There is a thin line that differentiates perfection from excellence. If any one person at any given point would have been perfect then there wouldn't have been enough to do in his lifetime. But ...read more

by Andi Bryant

Perfectionism was fundamentally defined as the reaching of the perfect life, according to philosophers and psychologists as far back as Aristotle and stretching across the times to modern day. The effects of perfectionism...read more

by Shannon Burton

Being a perfectionist is a funny thing; you derive such pleasure from seeing something done JUST right, and yet, at times, there will be people around you wondering why the heck EVERY little thing needs to be just right......read more

by Robin A.

I believe we all want things to be done our way, we can't help that, it is human nature. The problem, I believe, is when we strive for perfection from ourselves and everyone around us. Making a mistake has become a horri...read more

by Alfredo Giachino

Turn-on the power strip/surge protector, turn-on the computer, wait for it to boot, check the emails, check the online news, this is the new daily routine, long behind us is the newspaper, the coffee and the cigarett...read more

by Sydney Rosemond

Being a perfectionist is in the eye of the beholder, if someone else is beholding you as a perfectionist in their eyes they actually be holding you there. Get it. Ok so my theories on how to stop becoming a perfectionist...read more