The fear of not meeting high standards or falling short of expectations can create anxiety and reluctance to take risks, inhibiting creativity and innovation.
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While striving for excellence can bring many benefits, it's essential to balance ambition with self-care, self-compassion, and a realistic perspective on success and failure. Here are some pros and cons of striving for excellence
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Behind many fears is worry about doing something wrong, looking foolish, or not meeting expectations — in other words, fear of failure. By framing a situation you’re dreading differently before you attempt it, you may be able to avoid some stress and anxiety.
We must realize that we are avoiding putting our creativity out in the open. Creativity isn’t just composing music or painting. It can be coaching and mentoring, collaborating with others in a meeting, researching, writing emails. Anything that is not administrative or busy work ...
Apply the "good enough" standard to yourself. You don’t have to be perfect. You just need to be good enough. Setting unrealistically high standards prevents you from trying because of the fear of not meeting the unreasonable expectations.
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