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The Importance of Celebration
Have you ever achieved an important goal or dream, yet quickly moved on to the next task? Or maybe you boldly took a risk, yet your performance didn't meet your expectations or others? Or maybe the perfectionist in you felt the accomplishment wasn't big enough or worthy of celebration? Do you generously celebrate your wins?
Stop Being A Perfectionist
Perfectionism is one of the leading causes of procrastination.
Trying to be a Perfect Leader? Good Enough May be Good Enough
By reading this article you are demonstrating your commitment to being a better leader. Even the best leaders have flaws so why not go forward now with the leadership skills you have instead of trying to be perfect.
Lesson #4: Think Big, Act Small
When Hughes said as a child that he wanted to be the richest man in the world, he had a clear vision about where he wanted to go, but he did not yet know how he was going to get there. That is, until, he began taking one step at a time towards achieve his dreams. Hughes recognized the importance of setting high goals and thinking about long-term possibilities, all the while taking small steps in the short-term to achieve those goals.
Lesson #1: Don’t Deny Your Passion
“My first six years in the business were hopeless,” said Lucas. “There are a lot of times when you sit and you say ‘Why am I doing this? I’ll never make it. It’s just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job and try to survive’.”
Lesson #3: Go On A Quest For Quality
“Give them quality,” said Hershey. “That’s the best kind of advertising in the world.”

Martha Stewart Quotes
Martha Stewart Quotes
Lesson #1: Take Your Business Seriously
“I believe in God, family, and McDonald's,” said Kroc. “And in the office, that order is reversed.”
Lesson #4: Set High Standards So You Can Take Pride In Your Product
“If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.” That was one expression that Sanders was fond of telling his staff at Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets across the country.

Lesson #4: Good Enough Never Is
“Good enough never is,” says Fields. “Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.”

Personal Discipline
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things. One of my favorite sayings is "When you discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them."
The Cost of Being a Perfectionist or a Workaholic for Attorneys
Are you a perfectionist or a workaholic? Many law firms and other businesses encourage this. Lawyers and other professionals often brag about it. What is it costing the business and the individual.
5 Top Tips for Happy Holidays
From a distance, the holiday season looks great - full of warmth, laughter, cosy family time, beautiful decorations and delicious food. However, as an adult with ADHD, you know this time of year can be highly stressful. You have to coordinate and incorporate a lot of extra things into your already busy life. Keeping a tidy, clean house (for guests), money management (lots of extra expenses), planning ahead, organizing events and travel arrangements, managing your time and keeping in check perfectionist and procrastination tendencies could be a potential nightmare. But it doesn’t have the be. The key to enjoying the holidays is to find balance. Do enough so that you enjoy and celebrate the holidays, yet not TOO much that you are frazzled, burned out and in debt.
Is Your Disorganisation Destroying Your Health, Your Business and Your Relationships?
Did you know that 60-90% of all doctor visits are for stress-related illnesses? Stress is costly in terms of your health, relationships and performance.When you're affected by too much stress your body wears down and you get sick. Highly disorganized people seem to be more susceptible to sickness as they are always under extreme pressure, running from one disaster to another.
Why 75% of Women Struggle to Succeed in Business
When you look at the list of what women 'do' in their businesses it looks something like this.. 1. General administration 2. Email 3. Website maintenance 4. Phone calls 5. Marketing 6. Social Networking 7. Client work 8. Bookkeeping 9. Running errands plus much much more. Of course this 'to do' list is similar to what men 'do' in business, however the woman in business is also responsible for the personal side of life. Having children and partners plus take care of the household can consume your day without even going anywhere near their business! The biggest barrier to their success is they often try to 'do' everything themselves, which is impossible. While they are 'doing' the day-day basics, there's no time to work 'on' the business. There's no time to look after their no. 1 asset... themselves.
Choosing A Path
Reading in the airport while waiting for a flight to Houston, a housekeeper was tidying around me when approached by another facilities employee. After a few minutes of easily overheard chit-chat, she received coaching from her now apparent supervisor.

5 Timestealers You Must Avoid
Gary has a business, employing 7 staff. When he contacted me he was at a point where the stress from his business was so bad, that he would constantly wake up 3 or 4 times a night worried about everything ...his cash flow, staff, lack of clients and the affect all this was having on his personal well-being and family life. He didn't use a diary, had no way of planning and kept everything 'in his head'.Often his staff were idle because he hadn't spent time training them. That ensured the work didn't get done therefore causing Gary to lose clients.

Why Most Women In Business Struggle To Succeed
Alison Basson from Business Women Unite recently asked thousands of business women what their challenges were to succeeding. Most of the answers basically came back saying they didn't know what to do next to make their business succeed. When you look at what what the business model most women in business have ..the list of what they 'do' looks something like this: 1. General administration 2. Email 3. Website maintenance 4. Phone calls 5. Sales Strategy 6. Social Networking 7. Banner Advertising 8. Customer Services 9. Bookkeeping 10. Running errands plus much much more.

THE PLIGHT OF THE PERFECTIONIST
Perfectionism can be paralysing. Perhaps perfectionists could be helped if we adopted the motto of a well known sports brand and learnt to “just do it”. Instead of waiting for perfection, life would be a little easier if we just did it.

Is Franchising Right for Me?
Before setting up a plan for your franchise business, you have to truly ask yourself if it’s the correct choice for you or will it end up being a regrettable career move?

The Stupid Mistakes Disorganised Business Owners Make
Did you know that 60-90% of all doctor visits are for stress-related illnesses? Stress is costly in terms of your health, relationships and performance. When you're affected by too much stress your body wears down and you get sick. Highly disorganised people seem to be more susceptible to sickness as they are always under extreme pressure, running from one disaster to another. What many business owners fail to realise is they constantly repeat the same stupid mistakes by not addressing the fundamental issues that are the cause of their problems and guess what that is? Their own personal disorganisation.

Action and Speed Creates Results
Taking action with speed sets successful entrepreneurs apart from those that dawdle, and therefore stay in mediocrity. Small business owners and entrepreneurs have the edge in this regard. They can take action with speed, because they, unlike many larger organisations, can decide quickly and then move forward...
I'll Do It In A Minute... Or Maybe I Won't
Do you suffer from distractability? Do you put off starting things? This piece on procrastination is just for you!

Other perfectionist Related Articles

The Cost of Being a Perfectionist or a Workaholic for Attorneys
Are you a perfectionist or a workaholic? Many law firms and other businesses encourage this. Lawyers and other professionals often brag about it. What is it costing the business and the individual.
Business success strategies -- Lies That Trap Us
As a recovering workaholic/perfectionist, not to mention having delusions of superhero syndrome, I'm quite familiar with the lies we tell ourselves. You too know these lies. They're the ones that keep us stuck and away from our dreams. So what are they? Below are three of my favorites.
Business success strategies -- Get Beyond The Lies to Recovery
As a recovering workaholic/perfectionist, not to mention having delusions-of-superhero syndrome, I'm first to tell you the road to recovery isn't easy. But it is worth it. Here are 3 tips to get you started.
How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Micromanagement.
Are you constantly checking the work of your team members? Are you a perfectionist? I define micromanagement as: Often unintentionally, a micromanager delves into too much detail. Rather than allowing people the responsibility and freedom to do their job, the micromanager monitors and reviews every task. This obsession with detail causes resentment, affecting staff performance in a negative way. Micromanaging causes frustration. In the end, it can provide the impetus for staff to leave.
Ready, Fire, Aim To Improve Your Sales Strategies and Selling Techniques
If you are not talking about sales and revenues 80% of the time, you are not doing your job as an entrepreneur. Sales and growth are the ultimate measurement. You cannot build your company or your business without achieving those goals. Focusing on sales is not bad; it is not evil – it is almost required. Michael Masterson says it very clearly: if you’re not even selling it yet – don’t think about making it better! Think about how to sell more of it. As a perfectionist, I know how it feels to have 10 ideas to make something better even before it’s released to the market, but sometimes you have to realize that it’s the last thing you should be doing. It’s not about making something better, but about selling something, selling a lot more of it, making the sales process better, and then improving it based on what your customers say
5 Top Tips for Happy Holidays
From a distance, the holiday season looks great - full of warmth, laughter, cosy family time, beautiful decorations and delicious food. However, as an adult with ADHD, you know this time of year can be highly stressful. You have to coordinate and incorporate a lot of extra things into your already busy life. Keeping a tidy, clean house (for guests), money management (lots of extra expenses), planning ahead, organizing events and travel arrangements, managing your time and keeping in check perfectionist and procrastination tendencies could be a potential nightmare. But it doesn’t have the be. The key to enjoying the holidays is to find balance. Do enough so that you enjoy and celebrate the holidays, yet not TOO much that you are frazzled, burned out and in debt.
The Importance of Celebration
Have you ever achieved an important goal or dream, yet quickly moved on to the next task? Or maybe you boldly took a risk, yet your performance didn't meet your expectations or others? Or maybe the perfectionist in you felt the accomplishment wasn't big enough or worthy of celebration? Do you generously celebrate your wins?
The Perfect Mistake - the impact of perfectionism on peak performance
Mistake? So what’s wrong with perfect? Absolutely nothing. Striving for success can be highly motivating. The problem lies in accepting nothing less than perfect and going too far to achieve it. Take the perfectionist self-test and get tips for becoming powerfully, perfectly imperfect!

Is Delayed Decision Making Keeping You Stuck?
Quite often I see people agonizing over the smallest decisions in their business, like whether to post a tweet or article, what to change on a webpage, whether to offer a new product, or a hundred other small decisions, and the result is a kind of stalemate. Nothing moves forward. As a recovering perfectionist I understand why this happens and how counterproductive it can be.
Is it Good to Have Perfectionists on Your Sales Force?
Perfectionism can be a good attribute in a salesperson when it comes to administrative accuracy, but sometimes their perfectionist tendencies can get in their way.

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