<p><img decoding="async" title="Jane Schulte" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jane-schulte-11.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="alignleft" /><em>Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing &#8211; Harriet Braiker </em></p>
<p>When I was young, I was branded with the word perfectionist.  I thought it was a compliment.  Little did I know that it was not.  In fact, being a perfectionist is stressful and maddening and can lead to anger and self-destructive type behaviors. </p>
<p>No one can be perfect.  And no one should want to be.  The silly things we do, the mistakes we make and the fact that we don&#8217;t know it all is what life is about. Learning, growing and having fun in the process.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/04/perfect-or-excellent-what%e2%80%99s-the-difference-by-jane-schulte/" title="Permanent Link: Perfect or Excellent? What&#8217;s the difference? By Jane Schulte" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":604,"date":"2011-04-18T07:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T12:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T16:19:17","slug":"perfect-or-excellent-what%e2%80%99s-the-difference-by-jane-schulte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/04\/perfect-or-excellent-what%e2%80%99s-the-difference-by-jane-schulte\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect or Excellent? What&#8217;s the difference? By Jane Schulte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jane Schulte\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jane-schulte-11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><em>Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing &#8211; Harriet Braiker <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was young, I was branded with the word perfectionist.  I thought it was a compliment.  Little did I know that it was not.  In fact, being a perfectionist is stressful and maddening and can lead to anger and self-destructive type behaviors. <\/p>\n<p>No one can be perfect.  And no one should want to be.  The silly things we do, the mistakes we make and the fact that we don&#8217;t know it all is what life is about. Learning, growing and having fun in the process.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/04\/perfect-or-excellent-what%e2%80%99s-the-difference-by-jane-schulte\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Perfect or Excellent? What&#8217;s the difference? By Jane Schulte\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}