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Letting go of perfection

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Iā€™m trying to break a habit of perfectionism and itā€™s really tripping me out because itā€™s not a simple one step solution. Iā€™m not just trying to be perfect all the time because Iā€™m afraid people wonā€™t like me if Iā€™m not perfect. Itā€™s a mixture of things. So Iā€™m learning about thought patterns of perfectionist.  First, perfectionists have a pattern of looking at things as ā€œall or nothingā€ (thanks Rachel Luna for pointing this out on her podcast).  If we canā€™t accomplish the whole task in the timeframe we want or have we may discount the option of doing it in chunks and get discouraged or procrastinate.  One example of this is if you canā€™t do all the dishes right now because you donā€™t have time, but you have time to do half the dishes, an all or nothing perfectionist would just put off the whole task.  Or maybe you have a goal at work to get a certain number of tasks done. Letā€™s say theres 10.  While a non-perfectionist may also not comple...