Forget Perfectionism – Try This

If I tallied-up the number of hours, days, and possibly even weeks that I have procrastinated, geeez, it would be a lot.Do you operate a perfectionist pattern?How many times have you stopped yourself doing something “because it doesn’t look right, feel right, taste right, smell right or maybe sound right?” – as I write this, it occurred to me, what are we making a comparison to? Does one think of it being a certain way? Of course. Then I ask. Where did ‘this way’ come from? From my own experience I took a lot of influence from external factors, I wanted it be as perfect as entrepreneurs, healers, singers, writers, etc etc. What ever it is you are trying to achieve, ask yourself – is me trying to make things perfect enhancing or hindering the process?Let me try and explain it like this…You’re sat lake side admiring the sheen of sunshine reflecting off the lakes surface. It’s calm, there is not even a gentle breeze. You decide to create a ripple in the water. You first go looking for the perfect stone. After you found it, you start thinking about the perfect way to throw it in. This takes a while. Plotting. Editing. Strategising. But still, there is lack of ripples in the water, no?So I ask, what would be an effective way to create a ripple? Maybe the stone?The point I am amplifying here is that perfection is an illusion. Mathematical perfection or algorithmic perfection is the only perfect. This perfection is what allows nature to operate the way it does. [Golden Spiral, Fibonacci]. But for the most perfect is subjective. You can easily establish this truth by asking your friends what’s their perfect holiday, job, dream, etc etc.Perfectionism or Procrastination is simply the fear of failure. We mask it up by saying things need to be perfect, but truthfully all we want is courage to say f**k it. What happens when the stone first hits the water?  Chaos. Mess. Disorder? What happens then? The universe does something magic. It realigns it into harmony. So to some degree, we need to be comfortable with chaos, because the universe will guide me, or my idea into harmony.Please, just throw the stone and see what happens…Hugs..Adam