Help I'm a perfectionist...

So today I had an epiphany... I am a serial perfectionist.

Me and the hubs have been planning a mini break for the last few weeks. We have been so busy recently that we thought it is time to get away and leave the daily strain behind us. We have also just had a new car so wanted to give it a good run on the motorway. 

I am a last minute girl. I have always left everything till the last minute; I spent the week before my wedding running around like a headless chicken. So today I sat down to book our last minute break and five hours later nothing had been booked... 5 hours staring at a computer screen and I still had not booked our break. I understand that is ridiculous, but I just couldn't find the perfect place. 

Where should we go? No that is too far. I've been there before. Nope too close and this continued for a long time. 

Where should we stay? Too expensive. Too cheap. Bad trip advisor views. Not a good enough deal. 

Where should we book for dinner? 

And this continued for hours and resulted in a few small arguments. 

After some time for thought I came to the conclusion I am a perfectionist. I have always given 100% to anything I have put my mind to! Never giving up until it was absolutely perfect. When I was at school I would rather have got in trouble for not handing in any work than hand in work that was substandard. If I book a holiday I spend days searching for a perfect place, and usually end up at the first place I looked at. When I bake cakes I throw away batch after batch until I get perfect cakes. 

  

Now I have realised this serial personality downfall I am going to make attempts to overcome this. I need to remember that life is what you make of it, you need to take what your given and make it your own kind of perfect. Why waste your life thinking of how I can make this better? You just need to get out there and do it. 

So how do you think I overcome my mini-break booking drama... I walked away from my laptop and told Craig to book 'anything', and that's what he did. So I'm going to make the most of my Brighton mini-break. So what if the hotel isn't the best it could possibly be, we will make it perfect. 

What is your personality downfall? What do you wish you could be better at? How are you working to overcome this? Should I just accept I'm a perfectionist and get over it? 

You will find out about my mini break in my next post.

Love

Emma 

Xxxxx