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Welcome to edition #22 of B ME Bites! This week’s edition of B ME Bites explores the challenges of perfectionism and offers practical strategies for shifting the focus to progress and personal growth.

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Letting Go of Perfection - Focusing on Progress for Personal Growth

How Shifting Your Mindset from Perfection to Progress Can Lead to True Fulfilment

Perfectionism is often seen as a badge of honour, but the truth is that it can be incredibly limiting. The constant pursuit of flawlessness can actually hold you back, creating unnecessary stress and preventing personal growth. When the focus is solely on perfection, it becomes easy to overlook the progress that’s made along the way.

One of the biggest challenges with perfectionism is that it sets an unattainable standard. No matter how much effort is put into something, there’s always a feeling that it could be better. This mindset can lead to procrastination, burnout, and even a lack of self-compassion. Instead of recognising achievements, perfectionism often results in a cycle of self-criticism and dissatisfaction.

To break free from the grip of perfectionism, it’s essential to shift your focus to progress. Progress, no matter how small, is still a step in the right direction. By celebrating the small wins and acknowledging the growth that occurs along the journey, it’s easier to stay motivated and continue moving forward.

One effective way to shift your focus is to set realistic goals that prioritise progress over perfection. These goals should be achievable and flexible, allowing for adjustments along the way. It’s also helpful to practice self-compassion, reminding yourself that mistakes are a natural part of the learning process. The S.T.E.P.S Formula is the “perfect” tool to help you with this. Pun intended!🤣 

Another strategy is to adopt a growth mindset, which involves seeing challenges and setbacks as opportunities for learning and development rather than as failures. With a growth mindset, every experience becomes valuable, contributing to your overall progress and personal growth.

Letting go of perfectionism doesn’t mean that what you eventually achieve won’t be at a high standard. It means recognising that progress is more important than perfection, in order that you actually do achieve something, rather than nothing, which is what often happens when you focus on everything being perfect. When the focus is on growth, there’s also more room for creativity, innovation, and ultimately, fulfilment.

Is perfectionism holding you back? Is it time for you to check your perfectionist hat at the door? What small S.T.E.P.S steps can you take today to start focusing on progress rather than perfection?

Reader Spotlight

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Weekly Challenge

Your mission for this week, if you choose to accept it, is to do the following:

This week, challenge yourself to identify one area of your life where perfectionism is holding you back. Set a small, realistic goal in that area, using The S.T.E.P.S Formula and focus on making progress rather than achieving perfection. Celebrate each step forward, no matter how small. Keep track of your journey in a journal, and reflect on how shifting your focus to progress impacts your mindset and overall wellbeing.

If you need some help, feel free to hit reply - let’s help you get started if you’re stuck!

B ME Bites is deliberately sent on a Friday morning (Aussie time) so that where ever you are in the world, you have the weekend to give yourself the gift of implementing a small change towards a better you. What will that small change be? Is there a change that you have been trying to make and haven’t yet succeeded? Give it another go, applying the above - you can do it!

Resource Roundup

Here’s a great video from Evan Carmichael’s YouTube Channel of Tim Ferriss’s “10 Rules for Success”. Specifically, at 5:01 minutes in, Tim talks about progress over perfection:

Tim has written many great books including The 4 Hour Work Week and The 4 Hour Body, which would definitely be aligned with the principle of progress over perfection. You can check them out on Amazon here.

Here’s an article from Marie Forleo on the subject:

Below is a resource list that has been created with you in mind. Whenever something new that could be helpful is discovered or created, it’s added to the list, so check it out from time to time. If you’re strapped for time, once you open the page below, click on Resource List in the top menu, then click on the “Health Tools” link for a list of items that could be helpful on your path to a better you.

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Shari Ware Chief Encouragement Officer at B ME Bites

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