PARADOX 1: Perfectionism does not lead to
perfection.
Excellence is a good thing. So is working as hard as possible to create,
build, and perform to the best of your abilities. But what you may not realize is that trying to be perfect can actually hinder your chances of being excellent.
The pursuit of perfection comes with an ugly flip side: a fear of
failure, or fear of making a mistake. This fear keeps a lot of people from
trying something different or learning a new skill. They'd rather not try
than go through the anguish of not doing it perfectly. The perfectionist
likes to stick with things she knows that she can do.
To succeed, you need to grow, learn, and expand your world. By erasing your opportunities for testing the water, perfectionism limits your growth, and takes away your chances of finding a more excellent path. That's why your physical foundation is so critical. It gives you the confidence and support you need to take those chances, to recover from mistakes, and test the limits of possibility.From SparkPeople.com; italics mine.
People sometimes say to me - "Just do it; don't worry; learn from your mistakes" and in theory I know these things, I tell them to myself numerous times every day - but I cannot describe to you how powerfully paralysing this other part of myself is (I call it my tyrant, my evil Gollum that absolutely despises myself, that whispers to me, of which there is no good...there, I've successfully managed to make myselft sound schizophrenic - but this Procrastination Tyrant is not uncommon and my counsellor at uni whose been helping me sees alot of people every week with this same paralysing dilemma).
I've had a really bad last 3 or so days - but today is a new day and my little sister is coming home from 6 weeks in China so it will be full of hugs...
On a side note, this last week we have had beautiful soaking rain, first time in years and hopefully drought breaking for Queensland areas. Here's an simple explanation of the reason for our drought/flooding cycle of Australian weather patterns...
Definitions [from the Bureau of Meterology]
La Niña translates from Spanish as "the girl-child". The term "La Niña" has recently become the conventional meteorological label for the opposite of the better known El Niño.
The term La Niña refers to the extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. In Australia (particularly eastern Australia), La Niña events are associated with increased probability of wetter conditions.
Changes to the atmosphere and ocean circulation during La Niña events include:
- Cooler than normal ocean temperatures across the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.- Increased convection or cloudiness over tropical Australia, Papua New-Guinea, and Indonesia.
- Stronger than normal (easterly) trade winds across the Pacific Ocean (but not necessarily in the Australian region).
- High (positive) values of the SOI (Southern Oscillation Index).
El Niño translates from Spanish as 'the boy-child'. Peruvian fisherman originally used the term - a reference to the Christ child - to describe the appearance, around Christmas, of a warm ocean current off the South American coast.
Nowadays, the term El Niño refers to the extensive warming of the central and eastern Pacific that leads to a major shift in weather patterns across the Pacific. In Australia (particularly eastern Australia), El Niño events are associated with an increased probability of drier conditions.
Changes to the atmosphere and ocean circulation during El Niño events include:
- Warmer than normal ocean temperatures across the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.- Increased convection or cloudiness in the central tropical Pacific Ocean - the focus of convection migrates from the Australian/Indonesian region eastward towards the central tropical Pacific Ocean.
- Weaker than normal (easterly) trade winds.
- Low (negative) values of the SOI (Southern Oscillation Index).
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