Hey clutter bugs and welcome back to the clutter bug podcast. Today we're talking about overcoming perfection or perfection paralysis.

So thanks so much for joining me on this podcast. I am Cass from Clutterbug and today we're going to talk about

perfection paralysis or overcoming perfection and I thought this was a really great topic because we are going with our productivity boot camp in one of the biggest obstacles to being more productive in life, getting the things done that we really

want to get done is actually perfectionism. They've done a lot of studies on

procrastination and what they found is most people who

tend to struggle chronically with procrastination are in fact perfectionists. And not only can perfectionism lead to procrastination, but it can lead to mental

exhaustion from overthinking things all the time, it can lead to indecision, and of course it can lead to

clutter. I actually just had a little conference call live with a CC. She contacted me. She wanted to talk about

overcoming some of her clutter issues and so we did a live Skype call. I just got

off the Skype call with her and when I asked her what her clutterbug type was,

she told me she was a butterfly. But I could tell immediately that she was in fact a perfectionist, that she was in fact a B.

She was judging herself based on the fact that her place was messy, based on the fact that she had clutter and piles and mess all around.

But what I saw when I looked at her clutter wasn't in fact mess I saw delayed work I saw procrastination I saw piling because she wanted to take the time

to put it away properly because she wasn't sure of what to do with it, because

she struggled to find the best way to dispose of things, because she was fearful of letting

go, because she wasn't sure if she would need things in the future.

So these are not typical traits that you see with in fact a butterfly.

Butterflies generally aren't overthinking anything.

They're not even realizing that they're making piles of dropping things.

They're big picture thinkers.

They're done with a wrapper.

They're just tossing it down, not because they don't know the proper way to dispose of it, but because they're not even thinking of what to do with the wrapper. They are on to something else.

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