Even when procrastinator perfectionists are able to get something going, they can find it difficult to continue because continuing involves restarting.

trading the self-defined life for prescriptive balance.

Trusting yourself looks like finding the courage to override the constant temptations to minimize the small but meaningful steps you’re taking to honor your intuition. Trusting yourself looks like depersonalizing setbacks. Trusting yourself looks like realizing that just because the thing you felt so certain about changed, that doesn’t mean you wer

I love the rush of momentum at the start of a new project—I feel unstoppable in the beginning! But I struggle to stay focused when I get distracted by other passions.

What’s also true is that all kinds of different people generate breakthroughs; intense perfectionists don’t have a monopoly on being visionary leaders.

The crash is inevitable because messy perfectionists contending with unmanaged perfectionism disregard natural and unavoidable resource constraints (time, money, physical energy, etc.) in enthusiastic and active pursuit of their dreams.

As long as you’re playing small, that energy rattles inside you and makes you ache. Stop cursing the ache and become curious about why it’s there. If you’re a perfectionist, you want more of something. What is it? Why do you want that? How do you imagine getting what you want will make you feel? Perfectionism invites a deep, unending exploration of

Joy holds tremendous power. It is impossible to live joyfully without your joy benefiting the world. You persuade joy to come out of hiding and step into the spotlight through celebration. It’s not enough to simply learn to appreciate perfectionism; perfectionism is meant to be celebrated.

Observing that the people around you aren’t performing at the highest standard possible.