Life Without Fear

[dancemonkey]

So I, with the possibility of being a little embarrassed, figured I'd post about something I've been doing the last couple of days.

Yesterday as I was goofing off at work I saw that both Lifehacker and Lifehack linked to blog by a guy named Steve Pavlina. I'd never heard of Pavlina before and so I had no idea what to expect when I went to his

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[lizzielazarus]

Why are you afraid of these things?

[dancemonkey]

It isn't that I'm afraid. Not at all, actually. It is more like I'm in a position where I don't necessarily think that I have the time or the energy to do them well right now. Hence, there is a level of fear of failure there, I suppose. There is also an issue with perfectionism there. Perfectionism is my enemy. It prevents me from trying things a lot of the times. Often I worry about how the quality of my work stacks up to others. This is a bad way to live, and I know this, but at the same time this is what occasionally prevents me from actively participating in something. And it is all well and good to say, fuck that, but this isn't something that I'm terribly good at right now.

Make sense?