Cathy Vartuli from http://www.ThrivingNow.com taps on the need to be perfect to feel safe and to start doing the things that matter. Perfectionism is a great way to procrastinate and it really doesn't protect us the way we think! Get out there and start living your life! Do you try to be perfect? Do you feel like if you were finally perfect, everything will be okay, you won't be hurt, you won't be judged? I get caught up in that sometimes too, and it's a really common belief that people have. We're encouraged by society all the time to work harder, be a little more perfect, a little more polished, look like the magazine covers or the models on TV and suddenly your life will be perfect and it will be wonderful. It doesn't really work that way. That's a really good way to get ourselves in a trap, exhaust ourselves and feel really frustrated. I'm Cathy Vartuli from thrivingnow.com and I'd like to do some tapping with you on perfectionism. Perfectionism actually gets in the way more than we think. It's a great excuse for not starting anything, it's one of the key causes of procrastination and it stops you from living. I know. I didn't date for 14 years. I wasn't in a relationship for 14 years because I thought overweight people really couldn't date. I believed all the hype that was out there. I kept waiting for this miracle to happen, my weight would to change so that I could suddenly go out there and start dating. Nothing really changed in the world out there. People still judge people that are overweight. People will judge us for a lot of different things. I did lose a little bit of weight, but mostly, my body is the same, it seems to be really happy here. I've learned to love my body though, and I've learned to release a lot of the shame, so I am dating. The world didn't change, I changed here and here. I invite you to start changing here and here about your perfectionism, whatever it is, whether you think that you have to straighter teeth or fewer freckles or you have to lose that extra two pounds or the extra 200 pounds, it doesn't matter. Whatever your belief is, whatever's holding you back, 99% of the time, the biggest block is in your head and your heart and we can tap to change that. Think about your perfectionism, and you don't have to start by tackling the biggest project you've ever wanted to complete. If you're considering going out and dating, for example, like I was doing when I was facing the fears around that, I wasn't imagining getting married, I was imagining meeting a nice person for coffee. Take a small baby step, but think about what your belief and your block is around that. What is your perfectionism goal? If you had X, you would suddenly not have to feel Y, and we all have it. I thought if I had a s ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD6suGddio