I love to mentor and coach (probably more than my daughters care to receive) and people seem to enjoy my authentic interest in helping others grow. So this blog is to capture my thoughts and experiences that I have enjoyed sharing with others along the way. (And there will probably be a few rants along the way... who am I kidding!)
I hope you find them humorous, interesting, inspirational and most importantly helpful.
Why subtitled the Procrastinating Perfectionist?
Well, it was taking me so long to get this blog started, I realized I was just procrastinating.. again. I smiled to myself, when I realized that two of my many flaws actually help minimize each other. I do procrastinate, a fair bit. (In university I referred to it as cramming, and in interviews I referred to it as performing best under pressure.)
However, I am also a long suffering perfectionist. I want whatever I am working on to be perfect, which leads to cramming and winging it, when I do procrastinate. In this situation, I never have enough time to perfect it, so I have to accept good enough and be complete. (And my sense of responsibility is far too great to even conceive of not completing.) So in the end, the two traits minimize the crazy that can result from the other. My crammed effort is never perfect, and my desire to achieve perfection leads to planning which hinders my talent to procrastinate.
I decided to google procrastinating perfectionism to see if I could find some interesting th
So procrastinating perfectionism is a real theory already, and my idea is not so unique. How fitting, I realized, because most of my ramblings are not unique either. They are good ideas, good mistakes, good lessons learned, and good examples but they are not unique. My hope? To share my thoughts in a unique blog and capture your interest. Welcome!
