204 // 6 Steps to Overcome Perfectionism

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 204 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, I'll be sharing 6 steps to help you overcome perfectionism!

Here are the resources mentioned in the episode:

Article: How Perfectionism Perpetuates Stress (and what to do about it)
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The 6 steps to overcoming perfectionism include:

Step 1: Recognise perfectionism

Step 2: Be self-compassionate (check out episode 153 of The Mindful Kind for more tips on this!)

Step 3: Re-frame perfectionistic thoughts

Step 4: Change perfectionistic behaviours

Step 5: Practise imperfection

Step 6: Reward yourself whenever you take a step towards overcoming perfectionism

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindfulkind podcast.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at
0:12.0	Rachelcable.com.
0:13.8	Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress
0:19.2	and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.7	Hello and welcome to episode 204 of the Mindful Kind podcast. Let me just say I'm really excited
0:31.7	about this episode. A few weeks ago, I sent a survey out to my community via my newsletter,
0:37.4	and I received so many
0:39.4	amazing responses that gave me lots of new ideas for topics to write about on my blog and
0:44.5	talk about on the podcast.
0:46.7	I did a huge brainstorm and planned out lots of new articles and episodes.
0:51.4	And then I went over to my Instagram at Rachel Cable and asked my followers to
0:56.5	vote on two of my favourite ideas. And the idea that was most popular was how perfectionism
1:02.2	perpetuate stress and what to do about it. So I dove straight into writing that article,
1:08.2	including 10 signs that you might be a perfectionist,
1:11.5	my own experiences with perfectionism, six different ways that perfectionism perpetuates
1:16.8	stress, for example, perfectionism creates procrastination and perfectionism turns errors into
1:23.8	disasters. Then I created a six-step program for overcoming perfectionism, but by this
1:30.2	stage, the article was getting really long. So I decided to dive deeper into the six steps on this
1:36.7	podcast episode. So welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast episode called Six Steps to Overcoming Perfectionism.
1:45.2	Now, I realize that if you're new to this podcast, you might not know about my newsletter
1:49.6	and blog and Instagram, which are some of my favorite platforms to share mindfulness tips
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