I’m a recovering perfectionist who never used to achieve success because I could never achieve perfection…

What I now realize is that tiny successes lead to small successes, and small successes lead to medium successes, and medium successes lead to large success, and large successes lead to really big successes, and successes make you happy!

 

It’s incredibly important that you allow yourself to experience success at the smallest levels so getting your goals becomes part of the process, instead of the opposite.

Plus, and this is even more important, you’ll be able to appreciate yourself and celebrate all your wins.  Most of us don’t experience a significant level of appreciation, and then we beat ourselves up for not getting our perfection goals.  So where’s the appreciation going to come from?

 

In order for you to enjoy this journey, it’s imperative that you appreciate yourself for your efforts, and celebrate all your wins, regardless of how small they are.

 

Give yourself the permission to be perfectly imperfect.  If you’re authentic, you’re perfect, regardless of the results.

 

And remember, results don’t matter anyway.  The only real value in setting and achieving a goal is for who you become in the process of going after it.  The personal growth greatly outweighs the actual results.

 

But as a perfectionist, you’ll more than likely rob yourself of that personal growth because you’ll be beating yourself up for not getting the meaningless results!  Yikes!

 

So please remember that perfectionism is a made up concept that has no place in achievement.  As one of my many coaches likes to say, “You don’t have to get it right.  You just have to get it going.”  In other words, get in motion by doing the activities that will lead to the results you want, and everything will perfectly fall into place.

 

And if you think your results are going to get worse by dropping your need to be perfect, you couldn’t be further from the truth.  What I’ve found is the polar opposite.  As a non-perfectionist, my results are at least ten times better than the “perfect” goals I used to hold myself back from achieving.  Hmmm….