Hey guys, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Hey guys, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today I want to talk about perfectionism

and how being a perfectionist can sometimes be a bad thing and can actually make

your home messy.

So thanks so much for joining me. I'm sorry I haven't

podcasted in a while at summer. We're totally on vacation all the time and

I haven't found time so I apologize for that but I wanted to talk today about perfectionism because this is something,

I don't know if it's because it's on my brain, but this is something that I'm seeing in so many friends and family.

We are on vacation a lot, we're visiting a lot of friends and family,

and probably because this is my business,

people are constantly bringing up their organizational challenges

when they see me.

Whether I saw them last week or I haven't seen them in a year, it's kind of something that just

comes up in conversation, obviously, organizing.

And I see something that people are talking about again and again and again with their challenges

of getting organized and whether they know it or not the thing that's sort of

underlying in so many people is perfectionism. So I'm going to use my sister-in-law

as an example. They just bought a new beautiful house.

It's gorgeous. She's really into decorating it. Her style is a ladybug, so she's like a hider she wants everything really beautiful but she definitely has some

cricket tendencies and she's a perfectionist and she lives with a butterfly and he really honestly doesn't care. He just doesn't care about

having a tidy house. It's not something he even thinks about so when he comes home from work he

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