Perfectionsm and Intuition - How Perfectionism Destroys Your Intuitive Powers...and How To Fix It

Kevin Hogan in his program Lifestorms talks about different kinds of perfectionism.  It’s a hard life to live because you set standards that are absolutely, positively impossible for you not to reach.

Perfectionism can be a killer.  It sneaks up ans whos itself in many different ways.

 The Perfectionist  “Idea Man”

You  hear this, a lot, from Creative PeopleFull of great ideas.  But never finish any of them.

Perfectionism always looking for some new and better way to improve things before the first idea is even given a chance.

It’s kind of exciting …kind of enjoyable, and can be very stimulating. 

But underneath is this mass discontent that nothing is quite good enough. 

His ideas are being generated out of the insecurity, not creativity. 

Is there something wrong with trying to do your best…or be “the best”?

Self improvement is great. But perfectionists are practicing improving themselves...they practice condmening themselves under the guise of making things "just right" or "perfect"

But it’s different if it’s a compulsion.

What I mean by that is you never, ever stop.  And you can’t be satisfied with anything you do accomplish. 

The True Perfectionist has a stomach ache all the time. 

And nothing lets it go away.   

Why perfectionism is the enemy of intuition.

A lot of people like being called perfectionist. It’s a badge of honor. And I’m not about to try to change their life. 

Perfectionism kills your intuition because  every time  you receive  an intuitive message… rather than just hold on and let it sink in…you jump in looking for a new way or a better way to do what you were instructed to follow.

The Intuition drives Perfectionists crazy because the Intuition doesn’t always lay out the map for you.  It often gives you just the next step.  It’s the right step.  But you can’t see beyond it.  So if you’re a map reader…you can’t trust it.

The nature of unintuitive message is such that when you get it, it’s a condensed answer.  The next step is never good enough for that type of person who thinks that way. 

There’s Always Two End OF the Spectrum

I had read an article talking about project management that drew the difference between “Cowboy “ and “Perfectionist” project managers.

The Cowboy is the kind of person who shoots from the hip.  The Perfectionist is someone who will not take any step without quantifying and analyzing every piece of a period.

The weakness of the Cowboy is that they jump to conclusions without facts, have very unrealistic time lines  (never allow enough time), don’t put the products to enough testing and have little documentation .

The weakness of the Perfectionist is they spend way too much time investigating every angle and every piece of every decision.  On timelines, they overestimate the amount of time it should take and spend a tremendous amount of resources including time and money far beyond what was ever needed.

They also have a built-in lack of flexibility and have to stay on task no matter what So in the end they end up over designing and taking a lot longer for a project to be finished and should ever be needed to.

 Fortunately, it’s the people in the middle who end up getting the leadership roles and bring some balance to the group.  

 Intuition Straddles The Middle Ground

The point I’d like to get here is Intuition often creates a middle ground for decisions. 

It takes in your logical, reasoning input.

 And it adds it to all your experiences and values.

 And it brings both of them together for an answer that satisfies both sides of your mind.

 Thanks,

Intuitive John

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