{"id":1565,"date":"2012-08-07T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2012-02-04T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:37:14","slug":"perfectionism-lighten-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/perfectionism-lighten-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectionism? Lighten Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an actual transaction between David and a client in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David: Now on the fun issue, I got the sense that you want to be less serious and have some fun. What do you suggest there? What\u2019s it going to take?<\/p>\n<p>Client: I don\u2019t know. Isn\u2019t it ridiculous that that should be a scary place? Okay, I think I need to allow myself a little more time to enjoy things. What I really need to do is set myself a weekly time check &#8211; that doesn\u2019t sound like fun, does it \u2013 but where I check off each day, something I\u2019ve done for myself that\u2019s fun.<\/p>\n<p>David: Yeah, I think that can be fine and also to have something to look forward to at the end of each day. It can make your day a lot brighter. I get what you are saying &#8211; that it doesn\u2019t seem fun to set up a worksheet \u2013 but without a structure to change your pattern, it\u2019s hard to change your pattern. So, I think that\u2019s fine. So, specifically, what would you do to move this forward?<\/p>\n<p>Client: I think I need to have fun and also lighten up on myself. I think I have a heavy expectation on myself to achieve and I always have, and always have achieved well. I think I actually need to take some of that focus off to a degree. It\u2019s not the end of the world if you don\u2019t achieve everything you want to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an actual transaction between David and a client in Top Coaching Techniques. David: Now on the fun issue, I got the sense that you want to be less serious and have some fun. What do you suggest there? What\u2019s it going to take? Client: I don\u2019t know. Isn\u2019t it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[188,275,160],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}