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Done is better than perfect
Perfectionism sounds like a first-world problem, cut Perfectionism Out of your Life.
People always try to be perfect. That’s why they don’t start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you’re trying to be perfect, you know you can’t be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect — Tony Robbins
Perfectionism affected me, led me to stress and disbelief. It took some time, but I learned that it is nearly impossible to be perfect, that makes us human and we need to accept this. I stopped trying to be perfect and started improving from what I was yesterday.
In my content writing journey, I met many people and mentors. I wanted to connect with several experienced writers to gain a deeper knowledge of writing. I decided to work with a mentor who was nice and friendly. But whenever I told him that I have to publish my piece within 1 or 2 days the one thing that he always used to say was ‘’No hurry, no pressure’’.
I thought he was trying to release my deadline pressure and crave to make my draft perfect, while I felt he was distracting me. Because he always wasted most of time asking irrelevant questions and in gossips. I assumed maybe this was his style of working. There was so much going on in my mind.
After a week when we started working on women’s rights are human rights I told him I need to publish my story on 8th March but he delayed and delayed, that was pretty unearthly for me because he was not making any needed changes except correcting some grammatical mistakes. Why would anyone do that? I thought he didn’t want my story published.
On the evening of 8th March, he said it would be better to give this story some more time so it would be more appropriate. That month I got only one story published because I was trying to be perfect.
After working an entire month with him, I left his mentorship because his perfectionism was destroying my thoughts of improving myself and stressing on being perfect.
Being perfect cost me an entire month. For me, perfectionism is a mental disorder that forces you to not believe in yourself and doubt your skills.
