So! I normally don’t make resolutions, or maybe I do and I just like to say that I don’t so to avoid the feeling of failure at the end of the year. Luckily, I can’t remember which is the case, so at least there’s no aura of failure hanging about me!

But! This year! I have a resolution!

I resolve to not be so much of a perfectionist!

Yes, it really is a resolution. I am kind of a pathological perfectionist, in the sense that it severely interferes with my ability to be productive in any area of my life. The doctors even said so.

Thus, I resolve to adopt the mindset that whatever task I undertake, I only have to accomplish the level of “good enough” and not the level of “absoutely the best it can be with no chance of anyone criticizing it”.

Expect to see many more typos and nonsensical run-on sentences in this blog! I will try with all my might to not go back edit any of my posts from now on. Not for grammatical and aesthetic reasons, at least. If I need to change CONTENT, it’s okay. Because I said so. Also, I am not allowed to spend any more than 5 minutes on proofreading and alterations after I have finished writing a post and before I have posted it.

This should free up much more time in my life so that I can accomplish all the other things I should be doing with my time. Also, if I am successful, it will free up a lot of space in my brain as well! However, I don’t really expect to be able to lose the feeling of angst when things are not perfect. I just would like to be able to suppress it enough to move on.

(maybe I will also try to curtail my use of exclamation marks!)