Perfection is unachievable. It is futile to go after perfection when there’s no way to reach it. Pursuing perfection, rather than progress, can set you up for a life of disappointment and inevitable failure. Strive for progress, not perfection.
When you let go of perfectionism and pursue progress instead, you can stop procrastinating. A lot of people do not start anything in their lives because they feel they won’t be able to accomplish something perfectly. In their desire to make things flawless, the do not even begin in the first place. Perfection stalls progress, making you stuck where you are. When you’re after progress, you can give yourself the permission to fail and to keep moving forward despite failures.
Pursuing perfection may be the cruelest thing you can expect from yourself. Instead of beating yourself up for reaching an unreachable goal, why don’t you start giving yourself credit for being at least one step closer to the goals that you have accomplished?
