Preventing excessive demands and stress: 5 simple tips against perfectionism

What can you do about perfectionism? The Solution starts in Head: One must first of all clear make you spin in a hamster wheel, that fast can become a vicious circle: Anxiety - Top performance - limits - more fear - more performance etc. These 5 tips will help.

5 Simple Tips Against Perfectionism

Anyone who just keeps trying to achieve top performance out of fear of making mistakes will quickly reach their limits Motivation and efficiency. These

1. Despite perfectionism: less is more

In order to prevent the classic perfectionism hamster wheel, you have to convince yourself that less is usually more. And the best way to do that is to start small anti-perfectionism test balloons: So instead of starting with plowing through in the morning, you should first calmly consider which ones Tasks are really important.

The less important work should be approached with a little less perfectionism. It helps to be realistic Eyes what could happen in the worst case if you don't do this or that job perfectly. Or that Executive, who turns the corner with the next extra order, simply friendly, but determined "No" says.

2. Just say “no”

Most of the time, the result is far less dramatic than you imagined in your horror scenario. And the boss will not freak out right away if you justify his “No” reasonably, but only respect you a little more.

However, if you leave your perfectionism aside and go back a step and make the positive experiences that it is not necessary to give 110 per cent at all, it is motivated in such a way to boldly tackle even more difficult tasks.

3. Mistakes are inevitable!

Those who recognize that mistakes are inevitable and learn from them instead of complaining will find it easier to make decisions. And if you do your work less stressed and nervous, you have more time to build up networks. So less perfectionism is a big plus for them Career.

Many perfectionists have just in dealing with others People Problems. Because even if they are outward confident and opinionated act, perfectionists are actually very insecure people with a strong tendency to self-criticism.

4. Learning to handle pressure

The uncertainty leaves people with a penchant for perfectionism overly sensitive to pressure or Criticism react from the outside, which is why they try to isolate themselves and you accordingly Trust is limited to other people.

And it causes the perfectionist to want to have as much control as possible as uncontrollable events only increase their fear of un-perfect things. Be aware of this and try to eliminate this stressor as best you can.

5. Recognizing and eliminating causes of perfectionism

The reasons for the usually deep-seated anxiety and the sometimes even compulsive pursuit of perfectionism lie deep in childhood: those who receive a lot of praise early on are more likely to become later confident and optimistic think of yourself. However, those who are frequently criticized tend to judge themselves and their own abilities more negatively than is sometimes necessary.

Anyone who has learned early on that he is praised, or at least not punished, if he always achieves maximum performance, will presumably retain this pattern of behavior with a strong tendency towards perfectionism. Little Max, for example, who has written almost five times in mathematics at school, suddenly writes a three. A significant improvement.

Perfectionism: when criticism becomes negative self-perception

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Max could now think of himself: "Hey, great, learning was useful" and mentally reward himself for his efforts. But his father is not satisfied: "I paid you for the expensive tutoring and then you only get a bad grade again," he scolds.

Max now automatically thinks too: "Man, am I stupid that I only wrote a three." Through his negative self-perception he creates negative feelings and punishes himself. Perfectionism has arisen!

Perfectionism is also preserved in the adult age!

The older he gets, the more independent Max will probably become from her Opinions his father because he will learn to punish and reward himself. But the idea that a three is still not good enough and with it the perfectionism will probably stay with him.

Because even if the negative self-evaluations initially reflect one's own experiences: If such thought patterns solidify, then one will also become negative judge when the reality is now far more positive.

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