Sunday, September 2, 2018

The Pressure of Imagined Perfection

I started a new job. That's a story in itself, but for another time. This is a great job, as while its up my ally it's also super challenging in a great way using mostly unused skills I have.  While teaching me many more skills in different areas of my life. I also have just amazing bosses and love the staff I work with. But I've noticed as well as my bosses that sometimes when I get flustered during a certain part of the job, I can sometimes spiral way further than the small issue that actually went wrong, the innate pressure for perfection. The pressure that leads me to blank out from the pressure that the next words I say must be the perfect ones. Once I realized the pressure that leads to blank minds, I was able to say to myself, before I started the next conversation to relax and leave it as a conversation.
    My sick voice seems to love perfection more than anything, even me. My sick voice paints a picture of perfection, trying to convince me its not a mirage. The pressure levels up with each action I feel I am not doing right, whether that's eating breakfast before 9 or working with no questions. This pressure of perfection is paralyzing,I haven't figured out how to not freeze all the time,but the first step I've found is saying and labeling another aspect of my sick voice. The more you label and remove from the shadows removes the sick voice from having this fog over your entire life,so I'm going to keep clearing up more fog and labeling,till next time.

1 comment:

  1. Congratulations on your new job, yes the challenges of learning something new can always be difficult, but keep going, no one expects perfection. Keep on keeping on! if feeling a little overwhelmed with new tasks, take a little break away. What type of work do you do? it sounds interesting and if you are loving it, follow your passion

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