Dr Robin Buckley On How To Get Past Your Perfectionism And ‘Just Do It’

The first step in overcoming perfectionism is realizing that it isn’t a positive characteristic. Society has twisted the concept, making the term perfectionism into a synonym for hard-working or driven or successful. It isn’t. Instead perfectionism creates feelings of self-doubt or worthlessness, particularly if the idealized goal isn’t attained. Perfectionism also builds the tendency towards procrastination as people don’t finalize, or sometimes even start, projects because of the fear of missing a detail or failing in general. It is also detrimental to valuable cognitive processes. It hinders problem solving, time management and creativity. There is really no benefit to perfectionism.

Many successful people are perfectionists. At the same time, they have the ability to say “Done is Better Than Perfect” and just complete and wrap up a project. What is the best way to…