I've been a perfectionist for as long as I can remember. This DOES NOT mean that I produce perfect work. It means that I DESIRE to produce perfect work, and that desire leads to anxiety and procrastination.
I've always loved to write, but the problem about writing is that I care about it way too much. The more I care about something, the more of a perfectionist I am about it, the more I'm anxious about it, and the longer I put it off for another day.
Throughout all of school I would put off writing papers until midnight the night before and then pull all nighters desparately trying cram a whole paper into the last few hours I had left to work with. Give me a couple pages of math homework to do? I'd have that done within hours because I didn't care much about it.
My procrastination was never a big enough problem in school for me to be forced to fix it. Yeah, sure it was EXTREMELY unhealthy for me. But I still always got A's on everything I procrastinated on, so I kept on procrastinating.
Now that I'm starting a blog, my procrastination has turned into a huge problem that I'll have to overcome if I want to be successful. Yall all know that there's no REAL deadlines to meet as a blogger. There's no one to hold me accountable but me. There're no "straight A's" for me to maintain. I hate to admit it, but I'm the type of person who strives with outside pressure. I'm really good at not letting other people down, but I'm really bad at not letting myself down.
Trying to play off of that insight, I tried to create some outside pressure for myself. I emailed a bunch of people about information that in going to use for a blog post. I thought that having those people waiting for me to finish the post and link back to them would be enough for me to want to get the post finished. All it did was make me even more anxious about that particular post. It's been a week, and I've gotten 7 responses, none of which I've even replied to.
So basically it's the same old sad story that countless of other bloggers have probably told. I'm either gonna suck it up and move past this, or give up and move on (aka fail at blogging).
Have any of you had this same problem with perfectionism and blogging, but gotten past it? Please share your stories, the more elaborately detailed the better.
My hope is that this could help me and other bloggers in this situation have inspiration to overcome perfectionism. Please share anything and everything you think could help
Submitted July 11, 2019 at 04:42PM by TheREALpigglyWiggly https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/cc53p4/is_anyone_elses_perfectionism_holding_their_blog/?utm_source=ifttt
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