Being aware of how you’re holding yourself back with your self-talk and spending some time to get to the source of these beliefs is extremely liberat… - Jim Kwik

V is for Visualization: Vision is an incredibly powerful memory tool,

Perfectionism reduces creativity and innovation,” writes Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large and the former editor in chief of Psychology Today. “It is a steady source of negative emotions; rather than reaching toward something positive, those in its grip are focused on the very thing they most want to avoid — negative evaluation. Perfectionism, then, is an endless report card; it keeps people completely self-absorbed, engaged in perpetual self-evaluation — reaping relentless frustration and doomed to anxiety and depression.

There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price — poor memory, mental fog, and fatigue.