Fighting overachiever and perfectionist tendencies with the bare minimum

I fight perfectionism constantly.

I blow things up to overkill easily. I over-inflate them. I plus 100 most things.

And then I get overwhelmed and I never get stared or it never gets done or released.

Pressfield would call this the “resistance.”

To overcome this … I’ve been asking myself and focusing on the question:

What is the minimum?

Now as an achiever, it pains me to even type the word minimum. Or sometimes to think about it.

I’m not a bare minimum person I’m a 10x max it out kind of driven person.

But it’s helped me a ton get started or move things past the finish line by lowering the barrier.

And then I concentrate on stacking minimums. But again that’s the achiever wanting to go fast.

And what I want most is to get started, to make consistent progress, to fight inertia and the resistance.