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I updated last weekā€™s post, so it would have the same units of measure that were on Mikeā€™s handwritten recipe. As I have looked at past posts Iā€™ve 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 Iā€™ve published something and will beat myself up over it. Sometimes, like in a blog, itā€™s easy to make a correction. Others like on the printed page, itā€™s not.

I often look at other peopleā€™s writing and Iā€™m critical of the mistakes. Iā€™m guessing that most of them are, like mine, innocent typos that the spell/grammar checker didnā€™t pick up.

metal cutout of a soldier

A composite of three photos that I made when I was first learning PhotoShop.

What Iā€™ve read about writing content is that you should take about a week on each post. Iā€™m 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 wasnā€™t 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 didnā€™t 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 elseā€™s perfect is.

I also have to remember this when Iā€™m 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. Itā€™s still one of my favorite projects but I havenā€™t sold enough prints to justify my time creating it, so Iā€™ll just chalk that one up to learning.

Buffalo Bill Statue

A photo composite of a sunset and the Buffalo Bill Statue in Oakley, KS.

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 weā€™re not good enough come from? So, we often do what Melisa calls Trollectomies to get that troll whoā€™s whispering in our ear off our shoulder. Iā€™ve 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 ā€œIā€™m 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 wonā€™t go back and make all the posts look the same graphically because Iā€™ve 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.

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Susan is a lifelong horsewoman, a Master Equine Gestaltist, an Equine Assisted PlayShop facilitator, a breast cancer survivor, a reluctant caregiver, a photographer, and a metal artist. She has a BA in Communications and works with doctors, caregivers, and patients through the Equine Gestalt Coaching MethodĀ®.