Stop Being Perfect and You Stop Being Lazy

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readNov 7, 2024
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People that do not care whether or not they win simply act, for they have nothing to loose.

Those are not the lazy ones.

Many lazy people are actually perfectionists that overburdened themselves.

They want everything to go right and want to win so badly that they pressure themselves more than anybody else.

It’s the perfectionists that get in their own way more than anybody else because they have a hard time dealing with the failures along the way.

Stop Trying so hard to be perfect!

Things will not always go your way. You do not need to win it all right away. It doesn’t matter whether the streak is perfect.

The only thing that matters is what comes out at the end of the day.

Take New Years Resolutions, as an example; most people that start their resolutions quit eventually because they missed a day.

They go strong for the first month, maybe even the second one, but eventually they mess up.

A busy day, a bad start or even a small sniffle can be enough to get them off track.

On that day it seems reasonable, but the next day they look back in regret thinking that they have failed.

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"