FILE: ARCH-LTR-108 / STATUS: ACTIVE
The Other Side of the File: The Perfectionism Trap
Read the lines below. Then read what the pattern file says to do.
Every line below was typed by someone on the other side of The Perfectionism Trap. You are reading what they asked about a person in their life.
They are quoted word for word from public questions. None was written for this page, and nothing was added to them.
How to deal with an unreasonable perfectionist at work who delays everything until 'it's perfect'
I have an employee who always misses his deadlines but when he hands the work in its done well.
How can we turn a perfectionist coworker into a practical one?
How to advise a friend to get rid of being a perfectionist
Why do some perfectionists avoid doing and/or submitting their work?
How do perfectionists get over the hump of not being able to finish projects?
Why do some people keep starting projects but not complete them?
Why do people so love to not finish things?
Each line below is a public question a real person typed, quoted word for word. The Archivist chose and ordered them and wrote nothing inside them.
If this pattern is yours, these are the people it reaches. The way back starts in your own body, not in their questions.
Catch the body signal, the one thing you feel in your body as the pattern starts. Intercept the usual response and choose a different action. Rewrite by repeating that action until it is easier to reach.
Assembled by The Archivist from the record.
THE PATTERN FILE
The Perfectionism Trap: Why can't I finish anything?
When The Perfectionism Trap runs for years
These letters are part of the Letters in The Stacks, beside Unsent.
The free Crash Course, short lessons on your pattern, starts by naming it.