Sometimes I need to be reminded it’s okay not to get it right the first go. This has been one of those weeks. I’m naturally a perfectionist, so it can be a bit of a battle to accept things don’t always have to be perfect.
I have a quote stuck to my desk – I’ve read it quite a bit this week:
Give yourself permission to do it badly at first. Improve as you go. Don’t aim for perfection – it doesn’t exist. Perfectionism is a form of procrastination. If you give into it, it will hold you back from fully expressing yourself and kill your creative energy.
Ruben Chavez
Are you a perfectionist?
May 14, 2020 at 9:42 pm
Hehehe! I remember writing on the first page of one of my journals from my younger days: “I hereby give myself permission to write absolute crap within the pages of this journal.”
Deb
May 18, 2020 at 9:41 am
That’s a great vow, Deb.
May 15, 2020 at 9:20 am
Are you kidding? I’ve found cringeworthy stuff on the pages of my PUBLISHED work! If I’d been a perfectionist, though, I’d never have submitted my stuff.
May 15, 2020 at 9:20 am
Are you kidding? I’ve found cringeworthy stuff on the pages of my PUBLISHED work! If I’d been a perfectionist, though, I’d never have submitted.
May 18, 2020 at 9:42 am
I think that’s a really good point, Sue. If you focus too much on perfection, you will never get anywhere in life, writing or other.
May 15, 2020 at 12:15 pm
I had an issue making a mask this week. This so applies… (The mistakes are teaching me so much.)
May 18, 2020 at 9:43 am
Mistakes are how we learn. Something I keep trying to teach my Barbarians, but I’m not sure they’ve got it yet.