AP 306: How Perfectionism is Getting in Your Way || with Kolbie Blume

About Progress

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Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

If you've been around for any amount of time you know this, but our premise here is that life is about progress, not perfection. As a recovering perfectionist I know the highs are so high, but the lows can destroy your sense of self. There is no overnight cure for breaking out of that cycle. Sometimes we are taught the opposite is true, but really once you see how perfectionism is getting your way, you are free to live a more fulfilling life. You will know Kolbie Blume as an artist, author, and teacher...now. But she has not always been the successful creative that she is today. In this interview she really opens up about the exact moment she decided the worst thing she could do by trying something, was fail, but that her world wouldn't end there. Kolbie's message is about how creativity (something EVERYONE has within them) is the antidote for the poison of perfectionism and this epode will leave you with a lot to think about and act upon. About a few other things... The Strive Hive helps Progressors who are eager to take action and strive for daily progress access LEARNING, CHANGE, AND COMMUNITY, so that they can find more and lasting personal growth and fulfillment. Join us for weekly chats, monthly masterclasses, self development book club, accountability and more! For the final episode of 2020 I want to hear from YOU! Email me a voice memo or call in to answer this prompt: 2020 taught me... Let's make this "Dear Progressor," episode the best yet. Sign up for the Go Getter Newsletter to get Progress Pointers in your inbox every Thursday. SHOW NOTES Kolbie's Instagram, Book, Website Join Podcast University and learn how to start or grow your podcast! COVID School Resource Guide Get the Organization Overhaul audio course Join the monthly membership group Get your first month+ FREE with Libsyn using code MONICA Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: DRIVE by Dj Nicolai Heidlas @nicolai-heidlas Music provided by FREE MUSIC FOR VLOGS AND VIDEOS bit.ly/freemusicforvlogs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Seeking the Truth Never Gets Old.
0:03.0	Introducing June's Journey, the free-to-play mobile game that will immerse you in a thrilling murder mystery.
0:09.0	Join June Parker as she uncovers hidden objects and clues to solve her sister's death in a beautifully
0:14.4	illustrated world set in the roaring 20s. With new chapters added every week,
0:19.3	the excitement never ends! Download June's Journey Now on your Android or iOS device or play on PC through Facebook
0:28.1	games.
0:30.6	You are listening to About Progress. This is episode 306, how perfectionism is getting in your way with Colby Bloom.
0:39.0	Now five years ago I was approaching my 30th birthday and also what I call my first and hopefully only midlife crisis.
0:47.6	And it just rushed over me that for so many years my fears of failure had gotten in the way of me trying countless
0:56.4	things from learning how to watercolor to climbing some nearby peaks to
1:01.3	baking new things to even starting that blog that I thought about for eight years.
1:05.4	Now for the first two-thirds of my life I had been the classic stereotypical
1:10.3	over-achieving perfectionist until I crashed and burned in my early 20s and I got
1:14.9	very deep with mental illness including terrifying eating disorders among other
1:19.0	things. So for the next third of my life up to that point, I went the other direction.
1:24.6	I kept myself seemingly safe in this comfort zone of not making big goals, of trying hard things
1:31.8	or advancing my gifts and my interest.
1:34.4	So at that point of my life, again this is five years ago as I looked ahead to the next six months
1:40.0	at that 30th birthday mark on my calendar.
1:42.8	I realized that I felt the same way as an underachieving perfectionist as I did an overachieving
1:49.5	one, empty.
1:52.2	And it was in that same moment that I was finally able to even identify what was holding me back so much in my life was actually the thing I thought previously was propelling me forward, the Sikh for perfection.
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