STOP TRYING TO BE PERFECT

When it's totally perfect I will be content; when I lose more weight, then I will be happy; I must look absolutely right; everything must be totally together ... I must be Superwoman.

Do you recognise yourself here? Are you juggling any of the following: career; partner; social life; plates full of food; children; dirty clothes and anything and everything else, in a quest to become the most perfect woman you could ever wish to meet? Do you set yourself standards by which you judge the value of your days? Are you always striving to achieve more; do you ever give yourself a break? Try this quiz. 

EXERCISE:  Superwoman quiz

• Friends are coming to dinner. Do you have to clean the house, cook something exotic and complicated and wear yourself out? Or do you take a more relaxed approach and expect your friends to take you as they find you and share a simple, easy-to-prepare meal?
• You are feeling exhausted. Do you carry on regardless? Or do you give up and go to bed?
• Do you think that you would be happier and more successful if you lost weight?
• Do you feel incomplete if you aren't wearing make-up?
• Do you sometimes push yourself beyond your limits?
• Is it important to you that people think that you are always in control?
• Do you ever feel that you are just not good enough?
• Would you describe yourself as a perfectionist?
  
  Taken from my book Instant Life Coach details