“Well, as a recovering perfectionist …”

It was with these words that one of our colleagues started her response to a question in a recent internal meeting.

As she said it, we all laughed knowingly.

There are a few recovering perfectionists on our team who know the particular type of stress that comes with needing all the things to be just so, striving for the figurative gold stars, and doing whatever is necessary so that we don’t – God Forbid! – make a mistake.

In this meeting, we were talking about what we might offer YOU – our community – in this edition of the monthly email. We tossed around ideas:

Let’s offer them that awesome one-sheeter we have that will provide opportunity for self-reflection. Oooh, wait. We have that video we could share that will guide them through the process of having a hard conversation…

This same recovering perfectionist interrupted the brainstorming session and said “How about if we give them the gift of nothing in this email? It’s the holidays. We...