Are you ever spent 10 minutes trying to fix a tiny typo in an email only to feel drained and frustrated afterwards?

Or maybe you found yourself correcting a friend's little mistake in conversation, and it left everyone, including you, just feeling tense.

Or you like a place, but you can't help but pick it apart and find ways

that it could do better. And truly, you just want to enjoy it for what it is. And listen,

if any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone. We're diving today into this sneaky expression

of perfectionism that is nitpicking. And it is a habit that we often don't

realize that we fall into and have good news for you today. We're going to talk about why do we do

it, how it silently drains our energy, and then I'm going to give you some steps to break free from

the habit and start training a better habit. So you could start actually enjoying your life,

enjoying your progress, yourself, your others, and without obsessing and sweating over the small

stuff. Listen, stick around. This episode is for anyone who's ready to stop really just like

getting stressed by the small stuff and start feeling lighter, a little freer, and a lot more confident.

You're listening to the Confidence Podcast, your go-to space for high performance coaching designed for ambitious high achievers who want more out of life.

You deserve confidence that rises to meet your dreams. This is the podcast

that will help you activate it fully. I'm your host, Trish Blackwell. Let's dive in.

Hey guys, welcome to the Confidence Podcast. I'm Trish Blackwell, your confidence coach, and you're listening

to episode number 668, I believe we're at. We're talking nitpicking and

perfectionism. And I'm really excited to talk about this because in the over almost 700 episodes,

we've never really gone into this habit that is being, it's an expression of perfectionism.

And it really steals our joy. And when your joy is compromised, your confidence is as well. And so we're going to define it. And it's, you might

find as you listen that you don't nitpick yourself, you nitpick others. Or maybe you just nitpick your life because

you're constantly comparing and despairing because you're over scrolling and you want your life to

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