Procrastination holds you back, whether you’re procrastinating due to perfectionism, anxiety, or some other cause. When you put off a task, you’re not taking action. Therefore, you’re missing an opportunity to grow, learn, and become better. Even if you try but fail, you become better. In today’s blog post, I’d like to examine the ways in which you improve your skills and boost your productivity by allowing yourself to learn from your mistakes. Keep reading to see what I mean.
Effects of Perfectionism on Productivity
Anxiety and fear of failure often keep perfectionists trapped in procrastination. They may seem busy and productive, but the high standards they hold for themselves keep them from actually getting much done. As we know, this begins the cycle that involves procrastination and anxiety. Being productive is important to achieving a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. Productivity spurs you on to more action, while perfectionism keeps you stuck.
Learning from Mistakes
Taking time to allow yourself to be less than perfect and to learn from your mistakes has tremendous value. In fact, failure itself can be considered worthwhile if you change your perspective. When you make a mistake, you’re able to see where you went wrong and avoid making that same error in the future. Try not to be so hard on yourself when you do fail. It’s human to mess up sometimes. Perfection is unattainable.
How Failure Leads to Success
Embracing mistakes can even improve your productivity. Let’s face it, you’re not getting much done when you’re frozen in a cycle of perfectionism and procrastination. Allowing yourself to accept good enough releases you from perfection and lets you move forward to your goals. Getting something done is always more productive than accomplishing nothing. Taking small steps consistently will take you far. Once you learn from a mistake, you’ll save time in your next venture because you will have learned important lessons to avoid making it again. It’s good to consider each new opportunity a chance to learn and grow, rather than a performance in which you must be perfect.
When you let go of your perfectionism, you’ll find yourself accomplishing so much more in life. Thinking you must be perfect is the enemy of productivity. Making mistakes is to be expected on the road to success.
