Cost of perfection

Here is an interesting post which I read in Hindu recently.

Well,

The research has shown that people who try to be perfectionists suffer from severe bouts of procrastination and are consequently often unable to achieve their goals. In an atempt to do everything perfectly, regardless of its importance, they spend sooo much time and effort on inconsequential matters that they often endup missing important deadlines and targets.

So..develop the ability to set priorities. Before you start on a project or an assignment, decide on its importance and the time within which it has to be accomplished. Prioritise your work and determine tasks that require minimum or maximum effort. Perfectionists are often driven by the fact that if they relax or let go, someone else may better them. What sooo frequently happens as a result of this all the fun of what can otherwise be a perfectly enjoyable activity

The quest for perfectionism can rob you of a sense of personal satisfaction and self worth; you endup feeling like a failure, even if you are actually good. There may be handful of perfectionists among those who are successful, but then success is evaluated not only in terms of what you have accomplished but also in terms of how much you have enjoyed yourself. After all, the process of persuing a goal is just as valuable as the end result