How to keep perfectionism from holding you back

I’ve spent my career in marketing and communications positions. Striving to make everything perfect is a mindset I’ve always firmly held onto.

For years, I thought, “I am conveying critical information about my company, our entertainment content, and sharing news with external audiences. Everyone’s watching, so everything needs to be perfect.”

And to a large degree, this remains true and important to me here at TheSoul Publishing.

However, one of our company’s values caught my attention: “avoid perfectionism.” Although I am constantly striving for perfection, a small part of me always understood that to truly succeed, one must also avoid it.

I knew this was not only a refreshing perspective but one long overdue.

Keeping things moving to drive results and to strive higher means, at times, knowing when to say, “that’s good enough!” Below are some tips I use to best navigate this counterintuitive approach to perfectionism:

Prioritize. Prioritize. Prioritize.

It is essential to constantly evaluate your to-do list and the priority level of projects. Realistically, no one perfectly completes everything on their list of daily or weekly to-dos.