Soar to Success April 2021

I have to admit I am a bit of a perfectionist. I fight it, but the urge seems to creep up on me, especially when it’s something really important, or I just think it is. Unfortunately, it often leads to another state of being I’m not especially proud of - being a “control freak”, the need to do it all myself. The more important something is, the more difficult it is for me to hand it over to someone else or even ask for help. Pretty soon I am stressed to the max and completely overwhelmed. Sound familiar? My By Joan Washburn The Confession of a Perfectionist clients get it. As the old saying goes “it takes one to know one”. In my book, You’re Busy, I Get It, I have a chapter dedicated to the “Dangers of Perfectionism”. While researching the topic I found that perfectionism correlates with depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other mental health problems. In my experience there are degrees. Some do suffer these severe symptoms. Others are just enough of a