For those of you who don’t know this about me, I’m a bit of a perfectionist. Now while this benefits me in many aspects of my life, it has become quite a hindrance in others. One of those being my finances! I would spend entire evenings building excel documents to track my finances, when I should have been paying my bills or searching for ways to free up money to send to my debt (learn more about freeing up money to send to debt in my article Not So Mandatory Expenses). It took quite some time, but I finally realized the error in my ways. I figured out that finances are one of those things in life that can never truly be perfected. You can spend your whole life trying, but you’d be wasting your time. This is time that could have been spent in other, more important, facets of your life.

I wanted to write an article on this (how I was able to put my perfectionism aside with regards to finances), but then I stumbled across an article on Paid Twice. The article is titled Perfection is the Enemy of Progress and it said it all! As I was reading it, I remember thinking “Wow, this is the exact same problem I had.” So rather then recreate what has already been done, I encourage those of you suffering from perfectionism and finances to read this article. It really helps put things into perspective.

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