166. Perfectionism & Achieving Impossible Goals
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Are you a perfectionist who wants to do something big? Most of the tools life coaches use to help their clients go after big goals don’t take perfectionist thought patterns into account, which sets you up to fail before you’ve even started. Tune into today’s episode to learn how to work WITH your brain and blow your f*cking mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello my chickens, how are you I am sitting on the floor in a podcast booth that is made of moving blankets. |
| 0:44.6 | I can't remember if I talked about this on the last episode, |
| 0:47.4 | but the new apartment, which I love, |
| 0:51.0 | has really high ceilings, which is amazing to live in and is terrible for a |
| 0:55.1 | podcast so I just want you all to know number one what I do because I love you |
| 1:01.6 | and also what I do because I don't want to make my poor |
| 1:04.8 | podcast producer cry. |
| 1:07.4 | And number two, that it doesn't matter how glamorous my life may sometimes seem. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm in this tiny thing made of moving blankets |
| 1:17.1 | with my laptop and my mic on like a step stool |
| 1:20.9 | and I'm sitting on medication cushion on the floor because there's not enough room to have a chair in here. |
| 1:27.4 | So that's what's happening. That's what's happening. What else is happening? |
| 1:31.8 | It is December when I'm recording this and also December when you're |
| 1:39.9 | listening to this |
| 1:45.0 | I'm possibly depending on when you listen to it and I gotta tell y'all I have kept the energy up this year and I am ready to rest I am tired |
| 1:51.0 | and you know I have not been working in an ICU. Like I'm tired just from having a normal human life, you know, not to speak of the things that people have gone through this year. |
| 2:03.7 | 2020 has been a year for kind of so many of us and I think I'm hearing from a lot of people |
| 2:10.9 | what I'm feeling which is this pull to rest more right for those of us |
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