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Are you your hardest critic? Are your self-expectations unreasonable? Do you feel like a failure if you are not performing perfectly in all areas of your life, including work? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions chances are you are under a great deal of stress.

If you are feeling overworked and underappreciated, or simply overwhelmed, it might be time for you to review  your priorities and values , and ask yourself how being a perfectionist is honoring those.  Once you are clear on what is truly important in your life it is easier to decide on what you can let go of.  We can live healthy, happy lives without being all things to all people!

Here are some self-coaching questions to ask yourself if you are a perfectionist:

1. What expectations do I have of myself and where do those come from?
2. How are those expectations serving me?
3. What judgments do I have about myself?
4. What is my definition of “doing a good job”?
5. What can I let go of or say “No” to because it does not align with my priorities or values?
6. What “shoulds” keep me trapped in the perfectionist mode?
7. How can I let go of being a perfectionist and still maintain my work performance standards?

Remember, if you change your thinking you can change your life.  In the dictionary good is defined as:  “effective, efficient, beneficial, valid, healthy, or sound.” What if you could truly embrace the idea that “good is good enough”? Would you have more freedom, more peace of mind, better mental and emotional health, more success,  more fun?  What would be your first step to implementing this new idea of “good is good enough”?

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”   Gandhi

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