Perfection is something that everyone strives for but none attain. Overcoming the stress related to perfectionism takes strength and courage to accept that you are not perfect - you are simply human. If you are having problems overcoming your perfectionism then there are tips that can help you to cope with your ordeal.

Perfectionism is one of the biggest reasons why creative people don't reach their creative potential and become as creative as they know they can be.

Creativity and perfectionism are not just less than ideal partners, they’re more like a marriage made in hell.

Here are 7 unreasonable demands of perfectionism that show why your creativity should be filing for divorce and leaving it behind!

- Unreasonable Demand 1: You won’t produce amazing art at a moment’s notice. I expect you to be ready and able at the drop of a hat.

Barry J. Moltz - “Failure is valuable only when we realize it is a normal part of the business process even when there always isn’t something to learn. So it does not hold us back.

The real fear and pressure in this whole process is not brought on by our competitors or other outside people. It mostly originates within us. The biggest fear we have is that someone in our position would have done better than us, made better decisions than us and would have built it faster and more profitably than we did. We believe that that we should be in a different place than where we are right now, and that we would be, if only we had made better decisions. Nonsense.

Perfectionism is one of those things that sounds good but in reality can cause many more problems than it is actually worth. Perfectionism is a constant battle with oneself and is ultimately a no win situation that leave many feeling stressed out, anxious and completely overwhelmed. Though there seem to be many benefits of attaining perfectionism the actual truth is that the benefits are far overshadowed by the problems that trying to reach perfection cause. Being perfect is simply not