I updated last weekās post, so it would have the same units of measure that were on Mikeās handwritten recipe. As I have looked at past posts Iāve seen other mistakes. I was going to go back and make corrections but have never made the time to do it.
This is when perfectionism shows its evil ways. I will see a mistake after Iāve published something and will beat myself up over it. Sometimes, like in a blog, itās easy to make a correction. Others like on the printed page, itās not.
I often look at other peopleās writing and Iām critical of the mistakes. Iām guessing that most of them are, like mine, innocent typos that the spell/grammar checker didnāt pick up.
What Iāve read about writing content is that you should take about a week on each post. Iām lucky if mine get a few hours and some of that time is spent on finding/editing pictures, finding the right song and video, and creating the page in WordPress.
Several years ago, I was designing a logo for someone and my client came to me and said she needed something to take to her client. The design wasnāt ready yet. She said to give her what I had, and she would see where it needed work. Low and behold her client thought it was perfect and didnāt want any changes.
My point is my perfectionism had reared its ugly head but for the client the design was perfect. We never know what someone elseās perfect is.
I also have to remember this when Iām editing photos. When I first started editing photos I spent all of a long July 4th weekend editing a photo. Granted I was slow at that time and there was a lot of selection work as the completed project was a compilation of three different photographs that I had taken. Itās still one of my favorite projects but I havenāt sold enough prints to justify my time creating it, so Iāll just chalk that one up to learning.
When I was going through my Equine Gestalt Coaching MethodĀ® training we talk about perfectionism a lot. Were do those voices in our heads that tell us that weāre not good enough come from? So, we often do what Melisa calls Trollectomies to get that troll whoās whispering in our ear off our shoulder. Iāve seen several of these. While I was helping with one for someone else I suddenly had a flash of insight into where my troll had come from. That in itself helps to keep my āIām not educated enoughā troll at bay.
While I still struggle with perfectionism I will not be going back and editing those previous posts I also wonāt go back and make all the posts look the same graphically because Iāve updated the way I do them. My perfectionism tells me to do it, but my heart says to let my growth and vulnerabilities show.
Read more of my thoughts on perfectionism here: Nothing Human Is Perfect.
When perfectionism starts to rear its ugly head just Shake It Off.
Onward! Cross Country
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