Calling all my recovering perfectionist out there, this is all for you, my friend.

A reader named Elizabeth recently reached out and she sent a message and asked,

can you offer some advice on how to delegate or ask for help when you're a perfectionist?

Woo! I immediately resonated with that struggle because I tend to be a bit or a lot of

bit of a perfectionist myself, which means I can also very quickly turn into a control freak

if something isn't done exactly how I would want it done. I've heard it said that you

should delegate a task that someone else could do 80% as well as you should. That's what

makes a good leader. Apparently, that's supposed to be encouraging, but to my perfectionist

brain, 80% just doesn't seem acceptable. Like, that's a B, and I tend to be of the mindset

that if it's not an A plus, is it even worth doing? My fellow perfectionists will understand.

I digress. Okay. Anyways, while I wouldn't say that I have totally overcome this struggle,

I have learned a thing or two about having to delegate as a perfectionist. So if you

relate to this at all buckle up, I am going to give you four tips to doing this at least a little

better so that you can begin entrusting tasks to others instead of trying to do it all by yourself.

You're listening to She, with Jordan Lee Dooley, a personal development podcast for the everyday

woman. Come invited, leave ignited. Here's your host, Jordan Lee Dooley.

All right, let's hop right into it. Four tips. What I'm going to do is I'm going to list what the

four tips are, and then I'm going to dive into each one a little bit. So tip number one,

set up standard operating procedures or step-by-step systems. Two, start really small, and I'll dig into

this one a lot. Three, communicate your expectations and your dissatisfaction clearly and kindly.

Four, write this on a stick you know and stick it to your head. This guy is not falling when they

inevitably drop the ball. Expect them to drop the ball. Okay, let me dive into each one of these.

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