{"id":12899,"date":"2018-02-22T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2019-08-18T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T21:37:09","slug":"12899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=12899","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/randywells_L1011003p2bsl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/randywells_L1011003p2bsl.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"randywells_L1011003p2bsl\" width=\"330\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/randywells_L1011003p2bsl.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/randywells_L1011003p2bsl-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/randywells_L1011003p2bsl-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PERFECTIONISM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nelson, my 5th grade teacher at Mt. Eccles Elementary School in Cordova, Alaska, was the first person to tell me that I was a perfectionist. He advised me that while it&#8217;s certainly an admirable trait, it could hamper me if taken too far. I&#8217;ve never forgotten that, and I remind myself to keep it fun every day. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Miles Davis said, &#8220;There are no mistakes.&#8221; I&#8217;ve found he was right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perfectionism, after all, is an ultimately self-defeating way to move through the world. It is built on an excruciating irony: making, and admitting, mistakes is a necessary part of growing and learning and being human. It also makes you better at your career and relationships and life in general. By avoiding mistakes at any cost, a perfectionist can make it harder to reach their own lofty goals,&#8221; Amanda Ruggeri states in this article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180219-toxic-perfectionism-is-on-the-rise\">Perfectionism is on the Rise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERFECTIONISM Mr. Nelson, my 5th grade teacher at Mt. Eccles Elementary School in Cordova, Alaska, was the first person to tell me that I was a perfectionist. He advised me that while it&#8217;s certainly an admirable trait, it could hamper me if taken too far. I&#8217;ve never forgotten that, and I remind myself to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=12899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16051,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions\/16051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}