<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://designforfun.com/display.php?id=115">Quote poster by Bernard Barry</a></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Perfectionism isn't exactly a monster, but I find it to be a very convenient excuse for everything. I find I'm always telling myself little lies, "Oh, I'd totally get this done but it has to be perfect."</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Of course, I keep putting things off -- in the name of research and perfection -- and then I get a big knot in my belly because I know I need to just get started.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Does this happen to you as well? Do you know what the solution is?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I'm always amazed at how well things turn out when I allow myself to be imperfect. To start that draft and let it sit. I always find that it's never as bad as I feared.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Isn't that what perfectionism is, fear?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And isn't it interesting how perfectionism is so closely related to procrastination?</p>
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