Turns Out I'm An Arrogant Perfectionist; Are You?

Here are three inspirations to ease you back to post-holiday life! The first one is my trick for getting unstuck when your perfectionist tendencies are running you ragged. 

Well, over Thanksgiving, while visiting his brother, a cat wandered onto the front porch, settled into Jaden's lap, and never left.  

I never considered myself a perfectionist because

a) I'm more of what you might call a “clutterist”, and

b) I couldn't catch a detail if it sneezed in my face.  

 Now, however, I know that perfectionism is why it's taken me a millennium to get out of my own way. I was so busy fearing failure that I encased my feet in cement.

 So, when I find my mind looping like a rope in a noose, I remind myself that perfectionism is a form of self-importance.

 I know! I hate thinking of myself as self-important, too, and that's exactly why this technique works.

 When your best sporting event is self-flagellation, the last thing you want to be is self-important.

 Hence, if perfectionism is self-important, you're forced to take a sledgehammer to the cement blocks and free your feet!