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Here's another great reason to celebrate the fact that “work contracts so as to fill the half hour before your next meeting” (from yesterday's post). You will reduce your susceptibility to perfectionism and focus more on your desire to have something be done and out of your hair. Of course, most anything you do could have been better. It could have been better if you had more time, more education, more money, more influence, a nicer apartment, a faster computer, cooler shoes, etc.

Learn to put your projects into perspective, with each other and with the rest of your life. Not everything worth doing is worth doing perfectly or even very well. Lot of stuff in life is worth doing just adequately. Get perspective by switching between the close up view of your project and the long view, whence you can see all the projects.  If you are always in micro-view, it’s too easy to get sucked into perfectionism.