Can I insert a caution here? Some of us are perfectionists, which doesn't mean that we never make mistakes - just that we are hard on ourselves about it when we do. This can get us into trouble. I was given the perfectionism lecture just last week by my therapist because I wasn't satisfied with my test scores in my classes. I was okay with the one that was 97%, but not the one that was 86%. Perfectionism contributes to depression. I think he said something along the lines of, "You'll make yourself crazy if you keep it up."

Then the other night I was up late working right up to the deadline (midnight) to get my homework perfect. It gets turned in over the internet, and I opened up my web browser and the first thing I saw was this quote:

<font color=purple>"Perfectionism holds us back or it makes us go overboard. We are either
paralyzed by not having enough time to do it right or we take all the time
in the world to do it perfectly while letting everything else go by the
wayside." - FlyLady </font color=purple>

Knowing that it is a problem doesn't mean that we know how to stop though. No offense, Heather, please, but I just had to say something.

<font color=purple>"The real problem of mental life is not why some people become insane, but rather why most avoid insanity." -Erich Fromm</font color=purple>