The Surprising Choice that Helped Me With Overcoming Perfectionism
Dr. Kyle Elliott, MPA, CHES
Tech Career Coach, Interview Coach, & Trusted Confidant to Silicon Valley’s Top Talent: CaffeinatedKyle.com / Executive Coach: Assemble / Trauma-Informed Career Coaching, Interview Coaching, & Executive Coaching
I’m the perfectionist of perfectionists. At least, I was. Until I made a surprising choice that ended up helping me with overcoming perfectionism.
My Original Coping Strategy
Since a young age, I’ve displayed all the typical signs of anxiety—intrusive thoughts, unexplained episodes of panic and excessive sweating (ew).
To help cope, at least with the first two, I made to-do list after to-do list. I had paper to-do lists, digital to-do lists and to-do lists for my to-do lists.
If there was something to be done, no matter how small, it was on my to-do list. Even watching Netflix was on my to-do list!
This excessive to-do list making was a band-aid for the real issue—anxiety—which needed something more along the lines of a tonsillectomy (I had one of those, and it wasn’t any fun; don’t get one!).
The creation of to-do lists became a compulsion.
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6 年Kyle, nice reflection! For an anxiety-prone person tje worst one can do is push, even if it is yourself, and for your own good. Been there.?? Amazing, if one has this liberty to have a choice, an option. In most cases there is minimum. Anxiety is disabling, paralyzing. Make sure give oneself an option, and always have a plan B!??