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I'm not afraid to be seen trying

I'm not afraid to be seen trying

Why I'm breaking up with perfectionism and starting before I'm ready

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Charlene Storey
Feb 28, 2023
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Hello lovely

Perfectionism is the worst. At best it tries to protect us (stopping us from sharing anything that might make us vulnerable) but at worst it stops us from making anything at all, even the things that are just for ourselves. All that creativity and all those ideas are just flying around inside our heads with nowhere to go because we’re “not r…

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