4 Ways to Redirect Anxiety-Causing Perfectionism

2023-11-10

Let’s talk about how to channel the energy of perfectionism to where it counts. When perfectionism is spread too widely, it becomes anxiety. I discuss how having everything too perfect actually stunts your growth, and how you can reframe how you think about perfectionism. You’ll find four keys to redirecting perfectionism so you can experience more peace, and more progress. Plus, I share a moment during a race that is burned into my mind: a moment I realized that my need for perfectionism had gone too far, hurt a frien...

Let’s talk about how to channel the energy of perfectionism to where it counts. When perfectionism is spread too widely, it becomes anxiety.

I discuss how having everything too perfect actually stunts your growth, and how you can reframe how you think about perfectionism. You’ll find four keys to redirecting perfectionism so you can experience more peace, and more progress.

Plus, I share a moment during a race that is burned into my mind: a moment I realized that my need for perfectionism had gone too far, hurt a friendship and ultimately held me back from reaching my true potential.

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Time stamps:

1:00 Leadership and Yoga’s 1 Year Birthday

2:15 Is it procrastination or perfectionism you’re struggling with?

4:30 Up next week, step by step on how to host a yoga retreat!

12:00 The hilarious storm of the beginning of an unfocused meditation.

13:30 Breaking the cycle, tossing and turning.

15:30 How the brain regulates pain and why your mental state impacts pain signals.

18:30 How do we focus our energy on a grand problem rather than getting hung up on insignificant ones?

19:15 Number 1: Train your perception to choose strength and acceptance.

21:00 Chronic anxiety and fear.

26:15 How much risk do you season your life with?

27:15 The choice we are constantly taking.

28:30 Why “too perfect” stunts your growth.

30:15 Number 2: Realize what comparison does to you.

33:00 Blocking a friend from beating me at the finish line.

34:15 There’s a new power born from tasting failure.

35:15 Number 3: Notice the moments of progress that put an uncontrollable smile on your face.

36:30 Handstands are not competitive.

39:00 Number 4: It’s okay to be concerned, it’s okay to seek perfection, but choose what you want to channel it towards. There is perfection in progress itself.

41:00 Where purpose is hiding.

42:15 The pull to create greatness and surprise ourselves with what we are capable of. What a blessing!

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