How to Be an Imperfectionist

Trying to be special, different, or better requires a lot of effort and thinking. It is based on dissatisfaction with your self, and such effortful thinking now adds stress to your dissatisfaction. Realizing the Principles allows you to accept the perfection of how you are at each moment.

The reason this is so liberating, for anyone with even a hint of perfectionism, is that it means you get to give up on the exhausting struggle to take charge of your life, so as to steer it in a new direction. You get to abandon all hope of one day finding the perfect time management system– or perfect relationship, job, neighborhood, etcetera– and

On a closely related point: if you’ve found this book in any way inspiring, you may be tempted, at this juncture, to resolve to make a fresh start, to declare that from today – or next week, once you’ve got various urgent business out of the way – you’ll do everything differently forever. This is an urge worth resisting: it’s a perfectionistic atti