10 Signs You’re a Lazy Perfectionist
Lazy Perfectionist (la·zy per·fec·tion·ist)
(n.)/ A person who wants everything to be done perfectly but is too lazy to do it.
Hello. If you are in this eternal tug-of-war with your polar opposite personalities, congratulations! You’re a certified Lazy Perfectionist. Welcome to the club.
If you’re wondering whether you are or aren’t a Lazy Perfectionist, read this article and find out!
- My way or the byeway.
When you don’t want to do something and get someone else to do it…but then you don’t like it. It's not perfect because that’s not how you would’ve done it. So, you either have to be satisfied with the “imperfect” result, or you can do it yourself (which you probably won’t).
2. You’re a self-exhausting expert.
On the rare occasions when you actually do something by yourself, you put all your time and effort into it and don’t stop working on it (sometimes even re-doing the whole thing) until you’re satisfied with the result. You do it so thoroughly that it takes more time than required. And when is the deadline? Yesterday. Okay fine. Maybe tomorrow, but hey.. you’ll complete your work even if it's by 2:48 am.
3. Slow and steady…makes your mom mad.
Remember when Kenny Sebastian said,
“There’s a golden rule with mothers. When she asks you do something, you have to do it within 3 seconds. If you cross that threshold, she will do something unimaginable…She’ll do it herself, which is like so depressing, and then you’re like, One thing she asked me to do!”
This is something the lazy side of you will relate to. We would have done the work after 2 minutes of internally whining about it. Just give us some time, please. Thanks.
4. Sorry I’m late…(will probably be again).
That snooze button is so unbearably addictive because, being the lazy potato you are, you know there are 7 more alarms to go before it's actually time to wake up. But guess who hits snooze even on the last alarm? Damn right, it's you! And so, you end up reaching at 9:30 when the class started at 9.
5. FOMOS are your unwanted best friends.
We all have that one friend who says they’ll reach by 3 and arrive at 5. I’m that friend. No matter how hard you try. You. Take. A. Lot. Of. Time. To. Get. Ready. You’re struggling to get your eyeliner right or looking for the perfect tie, when you should’ve left 15 minutes ago. Is that even possible? All the lazy perfectionists voted, “Hell yeah!”
And so you arrive late and miss out on major fun.
6. You’re the CEO of overthinking.
Before you get to work, you start overthinking and stressing out, so half your energy, which could’ve been used to do the job, goes into just thinking about it. And if this wasn’t enough, once you’ve completed the work, you overthink if it's good enough. Sometimes to the point where you start having second thoughts about it and sometimes even rejecting it because it just wasn’t ‘good enough’.
7. Only pressure and deadlines get you working.
Until and unless there’s a sword hanging above your head or a gun pointed at you, your lazy butt won’t get to work. You might have your exam timetable or file submission date with you for a month, but you won’t get to study or work until 2 days before the exam or submission day. But since you have to do everything with zero errors, you’re pretty good at working hard when it comes to it.
8. Procrastinator is your middle name.
I am so good at procrastinating that I’ll write this point tomorrow.
9. To do or not to do?
You often get those random motivational thoughts to accomplish great things and fulfill all your dreams. You daydream of getting rich or famous or just being productive as hell. Then the lazy part of you comes over, both of you have a good laugh, and then you take a nap. You’re either at your most ambitious self or your usual lazy self. There’s no in-between.
10. The irresistible urge to leave something incomple-
Everything you do, you put so much effort into making it flawless that by the time it should have been finished, you’re still only halfway there. Then there comes a time when you want to leave something unfinished because (a) you had put so much energy into it that you’re now exhausted, and (b) you know you still have to put in the same effort into the rest of it. So you just want to give up in the middle.
