Ep. 357: The Sneaky Side of Perfectionism and How I'm Tackling It

Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)

Tiffany Han

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Usually, I’m really good at finishing my shitty first draft. The other day, though, my friend Tanya Geisler pointed out that I was dealing with some sneaky perfectionism. Today, I’m sharing how to recognize this sneaky perfectionism and how I’m flipping two small words so I can keep moving forward. Listen in to learn how you can combat perfectionism and get a sneak peek at how my creative direction is shifting soon!

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Episode Links:

Ep. 341: Tanya Geisler and the Imposter Complex

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Ep. 181: How to Grow an Idea: A New Path to Creative Productivity, Part 1

Join the waitlist for the Inner Circle

Ep. 345: The 12 Stages of Burnout and How to Get Out of It

Ep. 354: Tiptoeing Into Radical Self-Belief

Timestamps:

[07:40] Planting the Apple Seed

[11:36] Perfectionism Makes Us Quit Before We Even Start

[17:19] How I’m Flipping the Script and Working Through Perfectionism

[20:59] How My New Phrase is Changing My Approach

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to raise your hand, say yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about helping you have a
0:05.2	life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. Find out more and dive deep into
0:10.2	the archives at Tiffany Hahn.com and make sure you're following me over on Instagram at the Tiffany
0:15.1	Han. And if you're ready to get started toward that life you're craving, go to Tiffanyhan.com
0:19.9	slash quiz to take your free
0:21.6	agency archetypes quiz. You're going to find out why you're getting stuck, where you're giving
0:26.7	away your power, and how to move forward without having to rewrite your entire life. Now
0:32.7	onto the show. Hey, hey, y'all, it's Tiffany. Welcome back to raise your hands say yes. So today I want to talk about perfectionism. And specifically with perfectionism, I want to talk about an epiphany that I had recently about how perfectionism stands in my way, why that epiphany was surprising to me. And then a little
0:58.0	word flipperusky that I'm going to tell you about shortly, a little word flipperusky that has
1:04.8	gotten me actually really, really excited to dive into my own, definitely not perfect, but good enough for right
1:15.5	now kind of work. So let's get into it. Okay, so right out of the gate, I actually have to say
1:23.6	that I don't think perfectionism is one of my things. Like if you were to ask me to write a list
1:29.7	of all the things standing in my way in in showing up to my life the way that I want,
1:35.1	in getting things done the way that I want, in moving my ideas forward, and really in like
1:39.9	that deeper connection to who I want to be in the world. I would not write on that list.
1:45.5	The perfectionism is something that I grapple with on a regular basis. But and we know that
1:54.2	things like perfectionism, procrastination, overwhelm, giving into fear, giving into doubt, overthinking, over promising, overperforming,
2:07.0	all of those things.
2:08.6	We know that they can often go away and come back, right, in our lives.
2:15.9	And as soon as we feel like we've got a handle on one
2:18.2	thing, something else will show up. And sometimes it feels like we are spending our entire lives
2:23.0	playing whack-a-mole with all of the things that are standing in our way, some of which we have
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