CP, I hear you very well on the nitpickiness.
Here are a couple things that have helped me tremendously:
- Nothing will be perfect. No matter how hard you try, and you'll only exhaust yourself in trying to make it so.
- Get rid of unnecessary guilt. That's the guilt that we feel by unrealistic expectations. We're all human. We all make mistakes. We can't be 100% on top of everything all the time. It's ok for a drawer to get messy. It happens. Fix it when you feel like it, but it IS ok to NOT fix it. Believe that. No one will condemn you for a messy drawer, and you shouldn't condemn yourself for it either.
- Find a little more time to yourself, even just 5 extra minutes a day, to shut your thoughts down. Listen to a favorite song, think of favorite thoughts, anything that releases you from your surroundings.
Doing this has actually made me more organized and more on top of things and a hell of a lot happier, believe it or not. And, I have a much better outlook on everything. Anger uses up way too much energy, and I didn't see that until now.
Been there, done that, I'm a recovering nitpicker.
