Perfectionism

The disease of perfectionism is an especially nasty disorder. There's no medication that I know of, but it can be terminal if not careful. To those struggling with its insidious death grip, I offer Elder Maxwell's wise suggestions...

May I speak, not to the slackers in the Kingdom, but to those who carry their own load and more; not to those lulled into false security,
but to those buffeted by false insecurity, who, though laboring devotedly in the Kingdom, have recurring feelings of falling forever short. …

There is a difference … between being ‘anxiously engaged’ and being over-anxious and thus underengaged. …

We can distinguish more clearly between divine discontent and the devil’s dissonance, between dissatisfaction with self and disdain for self.
We need the first and must shun the second, remembering that when conscience calls to us from the next ridge, it is not solely to scold but also to beckon.”