A leader spent a week perfecting a retreat photo that should have taken five minutes, tweaking endlessly while nobody noticed the difference. The speaker explores how perfectionism becomes a time-suck for high achievers and why spouses and colleagues keep saying the extra effort is invisible.
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It often is just. You call it time waster, I call it time suck. Like so many things. I did this just the other day with some photos we took at the retreat. And I was just trying, trying to submit a photo, like, just submit a photo. I couldn't do it. It took me a week. You know, it's like create something it's not quite right. You walk away. You come back and go, why did I do that? And then you fix it and you walk away and you come back and it's like, yeah, a five minute job turns into a week long process. When then at the end of it, did anybody even really, like. I shouldn't say, didn't even really care, but did anybody even really notice? That's the thing, you know, Sometimes I say that to you too. It's like nobody's even gonna notice. Or my husband says that all the time, like, no one's gonna notice that but you, Nance. And I said, it's gonna drive me crazy, right? But I noticed. I saw it.