Perfectionism Gifts

Sometimes a desire for excellence needs to be tempered somewhat.

"Gawd! You startled me! I thought I had left for the day." Bob's perfectionism came back to haunt him ??" and go over the figures again.

'He's never happy when he gets less than 100% in his customer feedback!'

"Being happy with one's work is the kiss of death."

"Right foot, left foot, inhale, exhale, right foot..."

OCD Industries

"They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect something- I guess I was a bit hasty throwing that together in 144."

'Why didn't he take 8 days and finish the job properly?'

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

'I'm not too sure about that.'

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

"Even though I wasn't always perfect, I feel deep down that I am now."

Mum and the Sleepless Baby

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

'This software package can cut your workload in half. Do you want to purchase two copies?'

'Even in the mundane tasks, aim for perfection!'

"I want to have at least two children - I have too much guilt to give for just one."

Three work boxes: 'IN...LIMBO...OUT': 'I think I've found your bottleneck.'

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

Perfection

My child is a genius.

"Or should it be scrum or kanban???"

"Not to alarm you, but the other newborns are already ahead."

"It says it's the vodka that's distilled twenty-nine times - they just can't seem to get it right."

"Hush, little baby, don’t you cry ... ever."

'I'm a narcissist? - Are you saying I'm not perfect?'

Chris felt that, with diligence, he could teach Jack to hit a 1-iron by 11 months.

'He's researching out-of-state kindergartens.'

"You're welcome."

"This is Heaven, you idiot. Everything's perfect. There is no suggestion box."

Parenting Academy...I failed insemination.

Desk trays - 'Do it' and 'Do it right this time'.

Wanting his picnic with Gwen to be perfect, Hal made sure they would not be bothered by ants.