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one. If you get better and better as something to you hope to finally be perfect, number two is an important to you to produce something that is flawless number three. If he be perfect something would you feel worth more number for. Do you think that is best not to start something if it won't end up perfect number? Five, if you end up, I can best you see. The effort is a waste of time. Do you answer all or most of the questions with? Yes, if so join the club, the mindset of a perfectionist is devel Early on in childhood, admiral I rushed home from school bursting with pride, because I want a second prize at the hundred metre sprints point how my mother say What went wrong? Why? Don't you get the first prize have yet somewhere variances? If you listen carefully, your internal chatter you'll find a stalk phrase that relates to your professionalism, It may be something like you're, just not good enough or something similar the way out of here.

Action is a notice, your habitual inner message and to let it go each time when you become aware of it. Here's what happened to me. My pet message was: you should have done better, one day everything changed, I was sitting on a hillside raising in the evening sun. I close my as for a moment and went into a daydream. Then I saw myself standing in a cemetery in front of me was a gravestone my surprise, I saw that it was my own grave, it said, here lies Mary ACT. Tat S all liner, either in small lettering, a bent down to read it. He said she should have done better. Well, I roared with laughter those a turning point for me since then. I've learned to make me eggs with confidence. I still enjoy selling of the things I do, but my feeling of self worth is tied up in the quality of my results. Zan practices me to let go of the pressure of my own expectations. Little by little perfectionism isn't

Unskilful thought powder. Here's what you need to develop and orders shift this mind, habit number one, give yourself permission to be human number: to learn to forgive yourself from mistakes. Number three get back on the horse immediately after falling off number four remember, lay an ideal is only a goal to be worked toward not to be achieved. One hundred percent number five, be flexible as a realistic timeframe for the achievement of a goal. Number six develop a sense of patience and remember that the world won't stop. If you dont get everything done today, number seven, because. You yourself at least as kind as you are to those you love number. Eight backsliding happens to everyone, get back on track without a backward glance number

learn to accept yourself. The way you are like all of ideas of how you couldn't quote should be number ten celebrate achieving with a healthy pride and lack of self deprecation or false humility number eleven. Let go of harsh judgments of your performance and develop a kind, compassionate understanding for the hard times in August. Gulls number twelve talked a sensible friends to get a new perspective on something your anxious about number thirteen but is, and let go of your habitual negative thoughts. Never fourteen laughed jellia yourself, don't take yourself too seriously. Railway to deal with perfectionist stars to imagine a little gremlins sitting on your left, shoulder bring negative messages, Interior right now. Imagine what that funding one might look like whenever you know as a profession is thought, Jelly sway, your right hand over your left, shoulder as, if brushing off a bit of light. At the same time,

telegram and firmly. No thanks not now sounds bizarre, but it works. Honest, you just listen to them titled how to escape the trap of protectionism by Mary yolks of go, live Zenda come now. Whatever the end, with the Kremlin remind me of a post, I read of hers long long time ago, which was on confidence in public speaking. I think, and she offered an l p trick to help with that and I'll be being no linguistic programming. Now something I'm experimenting now actually with anxiety, process. I learned was to catch herself in a state that you're trying to avoid in which, for me, is anxiety and snap yourself out of it with a command like hey, then use a body trigger that you ve privacy, associate with good feelings, which for me, is making a fist in thinking. Yes, to myself then praising yourself or doing those steps so far the work a little bit for me to keep doing it and I'll. Definitely no if it helps law more so again, the first thing:

to associate that body trigger. So you should think of a timely fell, your best or most confident and make our hand motion or whatever, like the fist for me, while thinking about that and any time in the future, when you feel your best So something gray happens to me. I clench my fist and say yes to myself and I got to do with past variances and memories, and do it myself anytime. I want so then, as I'm gonna buy my day when I feel anxious, I go through the steps I say hey to stop myself out of it how to get up and shake it out and then a clench, my fist and say yes and then praise myself and sometimes weird and maybe even stupid, but Association is how our body works with a lot of things in this totally make sense to me scientifically and even doing it for them. Short period of time that I have seems to be obeyed. Her way. Alas, I to be entered into tiny, special raffles when books and have your question played in answered on optimal health. Come by old podcast, our common submit your health and finnish or died, and nutrition quest

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