The Frozen Perfectionist
You don't start because 'good enough' feels like failure.
Your ADHD brain sees every task as a performance. If the first step isn't perfect, it feels unsafe to begin — so you plan, polish, and postpone until panic forces action.
Sounds like you:
- You rewrite the same email five times before sending
- Deadlines are the only thing that override your standards
- 'Done is better than perfect' makes you angry
3 tactics that work for your type
Write the worst version on purpose
Set a 2-minute timer and produce the ugliest possible draft. Permission to be terrible unlocks the start.
Separate planning from doing
Plan for 5 minutes, then delete the plan. The plan was a procrastination device; now just do one tiny step.
Name the stakes out loud
Ask: what's the actual cost of a bad first try? Usually it's zero. Say it. Then start.
Your one thing — step 1
Open the file and type one deliberately bad sentence.
It removes the performance. Once something imperfect exists, the freeze has nothing left to protect.
Let Spark shrink the task until it feels too small to fail.
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