The completion obsession: why finishing imperfect things beats endlessly perfecting things

My name is Alex, and I’m a perfectionist.

However, I still often finish and ship imperfect things.

It changed my life.

You can be a perfectionist but rebel against this inner need…

And still succeed.

But when I was a perfectionist, all I ended up with was a graveyard of half-finished potential posts that could have helped hundreds.

While I perfected paragraph three for the 17th time, my mate Oliver published daily, built an audience, and made actual money from his ‘mediocre’ content.

Years of pain, trying to ensure everything was ‘right’, just kept me stuck.

Gradually, I learned that finished and flawed beats perfect and invisible.

The perfectionist’s curse.

Perfectionism isn’t about high standards.

It’s really about our fear of being rejected by another human.

When you demand perfection, you’re saying: ‘I’m terrified of criticism, so I’ll keep polishing until it’s criticism-proof.’

Newsflash, buddy: nothing is criticism-proof.