Hi there! You described me, for the most part. Just a few months ago, my therapist informed me that I'm a perfectionist, and a whole lot of stuff clicked into place.
I can plan for things, and I can do stuff when I'm not in my head fussing about it--but when I overplan or overthink any situation I get paralyzed by wanting it to go EXACTLY RIGHT. And knowing that it probably won't, I have a really hard time taking that first simple step, even it if would be pretty easy.
So what have you found to be the course of action?
I'm a classic perfectionist. One mantra that helps is reminding myself that doing something imperfectly is always better than doing nothing at all. I'm writing a book right now, and it's easy to get sucked into "I should do another round of revisions." forever. But then I remind myself that if I don't stop that, no one will read it and it is as if I hadn't written it at all.
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u/kherven May 30 '17 edited Jan 06 '18