19. Perfectionism

The Teen Life Coach

Kids & Family

4.7 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Trying to be perfect is a good thing right? Teen perfectionism is so common. Especially when you want earn approval from yourself and others. In this episode we are discussing some of the problems perfectionism creates and the best ways to manage your own perfectionism. Get the living with anxiety challenge at www.palmstreet.co/anxiety

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about perfectionism.
0:18.2	Hey, what's up, guys? How y'all doing? Today we are talking about perfectionism. And this is a big one for me. So I'm really excited to share my different things I've learned about perfectionism and hope that maybe it helps you guys conquer it a little bit
0:38.4	sooner than I did. But first, listener shout out time. We have one from a new listener. And they wrote,
0:47.8	it has changed me. This podcast has helped me through some tough spots and given me hope that I can find the light in
0:55.6	every situation. I love listening to this every morning to get inspired to make the day ahead
1:02.8	amazing. I'm so glad I found this and I seriously recommend it. Thank you so much. That was an
1:10.0	awesome review. Thank you all much. That was an awesome review. Thank y'all. Taking the time to
1:14.0	write reviews means a lot. So, perfectionism. What is it? Perfectionism a lot of times is defined as the
1:27.4	desire to try to be perfect all the time and
1:32.4	sometimes it's this expectation you have on yourselves sometimes it's an expectation you have of
1:39.3	others or something you kind of feel like other people are expecting of you. But basically, it's this very, very high and unrealistic standard in your head that really honestly cannot be met.
1:54.2	And I kind of mentioned last episode that I went to BYU for college and this is a very like it's a good school.
2:05.5	It's a high achiever university, honestly.
2:09.0	A lot of people have very high GPAs.
2:11.5	And I mentioned how I've been very perfectionistic in trying to get all A's.
2:17.3	And I stressed out and worried a lot
2:19.6	about being able to get into school at BYU. And the interesting thing is, BYU, from what I've
2:27.2	experienced, has a lot of very perfectionist, very competitive students. And everyone is so stressed out trying to be perfect and the interesting
2:38.8	thing about that is the trying to be perfect and having a perfect experience and doing everything
2:46.3	perfectly actually kind of ruins the experience the need to be perfect perfect, you know, stressed me out a lot in
2:52.7	college and high school and I could have definitely enjoyed my experience so much more had I let go of
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