Hello and welcome back to Not Just Paleo. I'm your host Evan Brand and happy New Year if you're

listening to this on time. If you're not, well, it's already 2016 and it's still a good new year for you to start.

Now today's going to be a little bit of a rant, I suppose. This is a solo episode. I wanted to talk with you about

perfectionism and how negatively

impactful being a perfectionist is to your overall health. And this is from a combination of

places that I've come to this conclusion. One is a book that I recently read called the

perfection deception. But but also I've noticed

it in my own life.

When I go to create a piece of content, for example, anybody that's out there that's

a blogger or a writer or a podcaster, I've heard many people say, I do a hundred takes

of the same thing over and over because I messed up on a word or whatever.

Maybe in the beginning of the show I used to do that more where I would cut something and then replay it.

But now I just go for it because putting yourself out there is most of the time going to be better than worrying

about distress of perfectionism, worrying that you said a word weird or you mispronounce something

or your voice cracked, you know, something silly like that.

And this doesn't just apply to content creators too.

This applies to you if you're someone who's trying to get through

life and you don't want to burn yourself out. Now I have a couple clients that are really high

performing people and they're both female and they admitted, you know, on their new client

paperwork that they were perfectionist. They put that as one of their new client paperwork that they were perfectionists.

They put that as one of their complaints.

And so they were actually conscious of being a perfectionist and what negative impact that

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