Perfectionists Unite

AmyM

AmyM

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Anybody else here a nit picky perfectionist in certain areas? Of course we cannot admit to being one, so we just say we are about some things :blink:

Mine is really really really bad when it comes to the photos, the scrapping, and any sort of crafty project or written thing like a resume.

I can't even edit a photo sometimes because I can't see the forest for the trees. I'm so paranoid of messing something up it's like it just cripples me at times.

Anybody else like that? What are you all perfectionist over?
 
My pages. Even the simplest looking page can take me anywhere from 3 to 5 hours. I used to be a perfectionist in my work before becoming a Mum, but now I'm more relaxed about things. My husband is a perfectionist in nearly everything, and loves a super clean and tidy house. Me? I'm not so worried about living in a showhome - would rather the kids just make a mess, play and be happy. We have to agree to disagree on that matter :p
 
Ugh. ME!!! It drives me crazy sometimes. I guess in some ways it's a good thing, because I put only my best out there, but sometimes I wish I could just chill and get stuff done faster! lol
 
pretty much everything...im never really satisfied with my layouts. Ive kinda gotten over being a perfectionist in cleaning LOL. (yea that is what digi-scrapping does to you:p )
 
My layouts! Definitely wouldn't be my house if you could see it now. That's probably because I am to busy stressing over my LO's :D

It honestly takes me what feels like days to finish a LO because I stress over every little detail!
 
AmyM said:
Anybody else here a nit picky perfectionist in certain areas? Of course we cannot admit to being one, so we just say we are about some things :blink:
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I've decided to embrace the blatantly obvious: I am a nit picky control freak. I can admit it freely. Perfection is this endlessly fascinating goal/obsession, d'oh! That being said, the insanely impossible standards I set for myself in just about everything - layouts (nope, not even close), parenting (is there a manual somewhere), partnering DH (sigh) have been modified to ridiculously high. Small steps.
 
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Does moving a button around on your layout for two hours count as perfectionism? 'Cause that is me!
 
yes, i can attest to being an anal type-a control freakazoid in almost every aspect of my life. my house is constantly being cleaned, has to be SPOTLESS before i go to sleep. i save and change a lo like 6 times before being satisfied. it's a problem.
 
lizzyfizzy said:
yes, i can attest to being an anal type-a control freakazoid in almost every aspect of my life. my house is constantly being cleaned, has to be SPOTLESS before i go to sleep. i save and change a lo like 6 times before being satisfied. it's a problem.
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This is so me to a T. I am so OCD in everything, towels have to be hanging straight, things placed just so...I embrace my nuts. lol :thumbup:
 
Me me me!! I'm a perfectionist in everything I do - I'm my own worst critic too! But the perfectionist in me really rears it's ugly head at work - my co-workers laugh because I always tell them it's my sickness and I just can't help it :blink:
 
I am this way about my house. It's funny, because as a teen, I had SO much mess in my room, it was piled up on the floors everywhere. But now...OMG...I chase the kids around, and yell "don't take that out!" LOL

I used to be this way with my scrapping, but then I realized it was taking me forever to do a page (think a couple of days). I thought everything had to be lined up perfectly, etc, but I made myself stop and I've gotten much faster LOL
 
I have completed lo's before and then just didn't save them because they just didn't seem good enough. I am glad to hear it's not just me that agonizes over designs.
 
I don't think I'm a perfectionist. My house certainly doesn't need to be spotless, LOL!

I've forced myself to stop being so perfect with my scrapping. It was taking too dang long, and honestly, I think I've actually IMPROVED since I stopped.

As for photos, that's what the undo function, and create new copy function are for! Create a copy of the picture as soon as you open it, and delete the original. Then you'll never have to worry about saving over the original!
 
BrodoNY0123 said:
I don't think I'm a perfectionist. My house certainly doesn't need to be spotless, LOL!

I've forced myself to stop being so perfect with my scrapping. It was taking too dang long, and honestly, I think I've actually IMPROVED since I stopped.

As for photos, that's what the undo function, and create new copy function are for! Create a copy of the picture as soon as you open it, and delete the original. Then you'll never have to worry about saving over the original!
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Col, I think I've gotten better too, since I stopped being so picky!
 
Didn't mean delete the original photo, I meant close the original in PS and only work with the copy. You can save it as is since it's named 92043copy.

Jamie I def don't doubt it. Instead of moving a button around for an hour (I used to do it, for sure) I pick a spot and leave it there and move on to another element. I think it's just a better workflow for me than staring at that button for an hour and getting overly frustrated.

Plus, I remind myself that NO ONE ELSE CARES where the dang button is! LOL!

I still have my perfectionist moments, but they are much fewer and far between now :)
 
jorgies5 said:
Does moving a button around on your layout for two hours count as perfectionism? 'Cause that is me!
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Passing you the perfectly polished perfectionist trophy :p Yes mam, that applies. That's exactly how I am with pictures.
 
*raises hand*

I've always set crazy high standards for myself. Fortunately for everyone else in my life I'm not so uptight, lol! I'm an overthinker. And I definitely agonize over the little details of most everything I do (scrapping, writing, cleaning).
 
My area of digital perfection is that I can't stand to have more than five icons on my desktop!! I don't know what it is - but I can't have it. LOL
 
I am soooo not a perfectionist...My life is a whirlwind of constant change-& my job in HighSchool Emotional/Behavior disorder does not lend itself to perfectionism...so I have learned to take what life gives me and either move out of the way or get knocked down, and if I do get knocked down...I get right back up and get in line for another beatdown.
My scrapping is no different, I have not set "style", I don't question myself very often and for the most part, just scrap to make myself and my family smile...and it always works.
 
Selective perfectionist here too! Along with any craft I have to add letter writing. I can be very anal when it comes to typing with my keyboard and I always over think it!
Ive learnt to be a total imperfectionist on the domestic front though - its become an art form in itself - at least Ive succeeded in quashing the perfectionist trait in something - Im slowly working on the crafting thing though!
 
I'm a selective perfectionist, too. I'm not that bad about LOs, probably because I know they'll never be perfect no matter how hard I work at them. But anything school/work related, any forum post I make or email I type, my mothering standards...way too much time and worry invested in all of those as I try to live up to my own perfectionist standards. It takes me so long to do anything!

House cleaning is an interesting one for me--I can live with mess. My problem in the house tends to be that I don't want to tackle a job until I have time to do it perfectly. I can't work for 15 minutes and say "good enough," so I end up letting it go thinking that eventually I'll have a big block of free time to deal with it. Of course, that free block of time never comes (and probably won't for another 18 or so years, when my kids are all out of the house). Eventually DH gets frustrated and cleans (less than perfectly...drives me crazy, LOL).
 
scarletsierra said:
*raises hand*

I've always set crazy high standards for myself. Fortunately for everyone else in my life I'm not so uptight, lol! I'm an overthinker. And I definitely agonize over the little details of most everything I do (scrapping, writing, cleaning).
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Yeah that. Absolutely. :p
 
jorgies5 said:
Does moving a button around on your layout for two hours count as perfectionism? 'Cause that is me!
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This is sooooooo me too! :thumbdown:

I am definitely a perfectionist when it comes to doing layouts, but in several other things too. I used to be extremely bad with wanting to make my house perfect, but then I had a child and that all changed! My dh is not a perfectionist at all so he doesn't care if the house is messy or dirty which doesn't help! I have to have everything in it's place. I hate to go to bed without getting the dishes done (although I do a lot of times because I'm too tired to do them) and I can't stand to leave the house if it's out of order. My house is not spotless like it used to be, but I do go on cleaning rampages from time to time!

I am so tired of being such a slow scrapper because of my perfectionism! I am even worse with traditional "paper" scrapping. I began my dd's scrapbooks this way and I finally just finished her first year (she's 4 years old)!! :eek:
 
me! I am a perfectionist with a touch of OCD! Like someone else said earlier, I tend to not want to clean unless I have time to do it perfectly. So, there is a big pile of clean laundry (all mine!) waiting to be hung up in my closet. You may question why it would take so long to be hung up... well, you see it has to be placed perfectly on the hanger, facing the correct direction, with the top button done and placed in my closet by category & color. And since we moved, my closet went from a walk-in with extra room to 34" wide. Yes, just as wide as the door that covers it! It's awful! But things like my bathroom & kitchen get bleached every single morning. The toys get picked up three times a day and the carpet gets vacummed at least once, usually twice. Now, it also helps that my house is the size of a tin can! Otherwise I would never get any scrapping done! But definitely a perfectionist on most stuff. Since we started having children, I have had to allow myself areas that aren't perfect, but good enough. Just because I am a perfectionist doesn't mean that my husband and kids have to be, too. Although, I can already tell that my older daughter is headed the same direction. It's so cute! ;)
 
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