Do You Believe in Perfection?
Judith Sherven, PhD
Executive Empowerment Coach, Decades of Working with Individuals at Tech Companies and Start-ups, Fostering Career Growth, Award-winning Self-help Author, Radio and Podcast Guest
How often do you hold yourself back because it’s not yet “perfect”? It could be a presentation for your team or the leaders at work. It could be a message you want to send to all of your customers. It could be a meal you want to serve at a get together of your Covid-pod. It could be the book idea you’ve been chewing on and would love to get your friends’ input. It could be anything.
Yet you excuse yourself from this version of The Imposter Syndrome by telling yourself and anyone who will listen that “I’m just a lifelong procrastinator” as if that explains it all.
But, of course, it doesn’t. Because it doesn’t help you wrestle to the ground of your identity what is REALLY going on---which is The Fear Of Being Fabulous. Yes, you know somewhere in your identity that you are quite capable, bright in fact, attractive in your own unique way. But the unconscious gremlins of The Imposter Syndrome keep driving you back into fantasies of perfection! So you are never ever good enough.
Well, if you are ready to say “Phooey on that!” let’s examine how you can live with “good enough” and get your life moving forward.
First – there is no such thing as perfect. Period. There is only and ever your best at this time and place.
Second – nothing can change in your life unless and until you put yourself out into the world, taking risks, rising up to challenges, moving forward.
Third – you can’t know in advance how The Universe will bless your life in unimagined ways when you do move out and beyond your illusion of perfection.
So, now, what will you do today “imperfectly” that you have been putting off?
For more about how to overcome the imposter syndrome go to a free demo of Module One of our new online Learning & Development course “Being Fabulous In Business” www.beingFabulousinBusiness.com
And a big thanks to
@JackieLyles, @DeniseCassino, @JamesSniechowski, @SteveLillo, @KashoniaCarnegie
Judith Sherven, PhD and her husband Jim Sniechowski, PhD are an executive coaching team for a wide variety of tech companies and the Los Angeles Times best-selling authors of 8 books. They have been interviewed by over 3000 television and radio shows including Oprah, The View, CNN, and Canada AM.
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3 年This is a great reminder for those people who are pressured to be "perfect" at all times. For me, as long you're doing your best, the outcome is already perfect. We must not be too hard on ourselves.
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3 年Perfection does not exist, especially when you have to deal with other human beings. All you can do is work towards making things as good as they can be and accept that everything else will never be perfect. That’s easier said than done for many of us, because we tend to rank ourselves on a scale from perfect to not-so-perfect. Perfection. The enemy of progress. Perfection does not exist. In English, the word itself pretty much falls apart - it consists of two words meaning "complete" and "without". Judith Sherven, PhD amazing post.
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3 年Guilty as charged... thanks for waking me up to it... again!
Management consultant (retired) Corporate culture, Multilateral governance.
3 年Sometimes the environment picks on somebody who does not ”act by the book”. If you want to try out something, go for it. Do not hold back. Your learning curve will rejoice! ??