WHY PERFECTIONISM IS DAMAGING TO YOU.

*Why perfectionism is damaging to you*

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Being a slave to an insatiable drive for perfectionism limits your ability to feel joy, acceptance and satisfaction. It also keeps you from a full appreciation of others. In your career, perfectionism demands that you continually pursue validation  -  inner and outer  -  to tell you you're "ok." If "perfect" is your standard, you find it hard to feel safe, worthy or "good enough" unless you're achieving some invisible standard you've created.

You're on the constant look-out for the next
bar to jump over to prove your worthiness, and you become demoralized quickly when others are less than supportive of you. Worse yet, perfectionists often experience the common dreaded "impostor" syndrome  -  the fear that if people saw the "real you," they'd realize you're a fake and you're flawed.

Specifically, perfectionistic behavior damages your career/life because it:

1. Makes you more difficult to be with, collaborate with and manage  -  your need to "win" or be the best alienates your colleagues

2. Hurts people  -  your critical and judgmental thinking and behavior toward yourself bleeds out to others and negatively impacts them

3. Taints your judgment  -  your ability to manage people, projects and resources is altered because you see "perfect" as the only standard to strive for

4. Crimps your creativity  -  the creative process is not a clean, perfect, linear one and the "messiness" of creativity makes you uncomfortable and insecure

5. Puts up walls  -  those around you can sense your energy of edginess and judgment and your need to be perfect, which repels people.

DAREACTION: In the end, if you're a perfectionist, your ability to lead, inspire and engage others  -  as well as generate trust and loyalty  -  will be severely impaired.

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