Your plan for feeling perfectionistic
Separate making from improving.
Quality comes from revision. Trying to perfect each line while creating it blocks both stages.
Choose how you want to approach it
Keep in mind
- Complete can become excellent.
- Perfect cannot become real if it stays unwritten.
- Standards work better in the editing stage.
Step-by-step
- 01
Define good enough
Write three requirements the task truly needs to meet. Keep this move under five minutes.
- 02
Draft without editing
Create for fifteen minutes without deleting or polishing. Keep this move under five minutes.
- 03
Take a short pause
Step away so you can return as an editor, not a critic. Keep this move under five minutes.
- 04
Check the requirements
Improve only what connects to your three requirements. Keep this move under five minutes.