How to get rid of perfectionism and cease to stagnate

Perfectionism hinders your progress: selflessly working on small tasks, you're just wasting your time. To learn how to understand what is important in reality, and begin to move toward success by leaps and bounds, we speak today.

Fear of failure made it work. Many successful people have refused makeovers. This is not surprising: every day they have to make many urgent and important decisions. If surgeons are doing something, just being 100% sure, the cemetery each of them would have been much more.

In 2010, there was an inscription "do better perfect» (Done is better than perfect) on the Facebook wall of the main office. It is intended to remind employees that perfectionism is devastating and no benefit.

What if Facebook did not start until he would be "perfect"? Most likely, this social network is still not appeared.

Where does perfectionism

Posen Bob (Bob Pozen), author of the book Extreme Productivity, On the first lecture course on productivity asks students whether they consider themselves to be perfectionists. Typically, about half of the students replied in the affirmative and talk about demanding parents or teachers, who hammered into their heads that the tasks to be performed with precision and accuracy.

I believe that people are not born perfectionists, but the family, the school, the environment helps them to learn this way of thinking. And because it is a habit of it, you can get rid of.

Bob Posen

The big problem perfectionists is that they spend too much time on tasks that are not important or do not require such a thorough approach. Therefore, they do not have the time: in the working day is too few hours to perfect everything.

How to deal with perfectionism

Elizabeth Grace Saunders (Elizabeth Grace Saunders), author of the book How to Invest Your Time Like Money, Works as a consultant on time management, helping people get rid of the need to be perfect and start spending time on the really important things. It offers several ways to get rid of perfectionism.

Do not hang tags

Rather than call himself a perfectionist, you say that you "sometimes tend to act as a perfectionist." So how would you allow yourself to act in a different way.

Recognize that perfectionism prevents you

Now it is important to realize that, giving himself to one thing, you forget about other areas that require your attention. So, perfectionists sometimes just do not do the right things or make them too late, and this prevents them from achieving success. If they immediately lowered the bar, everything would be different.

limit yourself

Perfectionist will work on a task until it will achieve the "ideal" results, no matter how long it takes. So Saunders advises to set deadlines.

Take each task a certain time (better if it is two times less than usual) and watch your speed in order to meet the deadline.

This advice has helped many people get rid of perfectionism. They realized that not to do something perfect does not mean being lazy and indifferent to the results of the work. You just look at your budget and the time you say, "Well, how much time I can devote to this task in order to get a good result?"

Allocate time with ISE

Often perfectionists just do not understand that different tasks require different amounts of time and effort. To distribute things in order of importance, Saunders suggests using a technique INO:

• Investment objectives: Profitability is high, the time spent will pay off handsomely.
• neutral taskYou get as much as investing (example: meetings with employees or standard reports).
• optimized task: The result is independent of the amount of time (example: analysis of e-mail).

Distribute tasks, you will understand what it is necessary to devote more time. If you work with e-mail refers to the optimized tasks, you do not have to reread and rewrite the letter three or four times: the time is useful for cases in the first group.

Here are some important questions to help determine which category you need to include a specific task:

1. It's important for me?
2. If so, how?
3. Whether to perform a task at a high level, not how it goes? Whether the efforts will pay off?
4. What is the minimum set of actions?
5. How much time do I have this problem?

Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? This does not prevent you from living?