Perfect... Or Not.

Hello guys :)

Today’s post is going to be discussing something that I tend to struggle with, and I am sure there are some others out there just like this.

Perfectionism.

Wouldn’t it be perfect to be perfect? Well, no. It wouldn’t be! But for me, I am so Type A. (If you don’t know the difference between a Type A and a Type B personality, read about it here --> http://changingminds.org/explanations/preferences/typea_typeb.htm)

From the moment my trainer met me, the first thing she even said to me was that I was very Type A. And this was just within minutes of meeting her. Am I really that obvious? Sadly. Also, I took a personality test to determine if one was Type A or Type B, and I scored above 120. If you scored 120+, you were labeled “extremely Type A.”

Cool.

For me, I’m very aware of the time and feel I need to be on time with everything. I am not joking. I love giving myself goals and objectives to meet, and 95% of the time I make sure I meet them. The other 5% of the time is due to simply just not being able to. And my Type A mind does NOT like to admit that I couldn’t do something. Me? Not being able to do something? HA! Impossible, my friends.

I am so into competition as well. Ever since I was a little girl, competition was my ‘thang.’ In kindergarten, we would have counting competitions to see who could count to the highest number. I would almost always win and when I didn’t I would throw a tantrum! As I grew older, I competed in numerous spelling bees and won most. I had to know how to spell everything correctly OR ELSE. I always had to make sure my homework and essays were perfect OR ELSE. It's no wonder why I want to compete in figure competitions one day!

Even my hair and make-up have to be perfection to a T; not a hair out of place. It drives me insane when one little hair doesn’t lay perfectly flat. Nuh uh. Not gonna happen. *whips out the hairspray*

It’s one thing that I really hate, and really need to work on. I can’t live life expecting everything to go my way. It’s just not what happens! Besides, it really IS true that when you make mistakes, you learn from them. If I’m constantly trying to not make mistakes, how will I learn?

I know most things are easier said than done. I wish I could just say “Yeah! I’m going to stop trying to be so perfect and dance with unicorns and lick rainbow lollipops!” Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. I will try to accept that I can’t do everything so perfectly, and hopefully it works. :)

So my question to all of you is...

How do you cope when you know you can't do something perfectly?

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