How to Achieve Perfection

Perfection is an attribute of a task accomplishment, and not that of a person. So, saying that 'Nobody is perfect' is misconceived. A person may be perfect only when his/her all the accomplishments are perfect which is an impossible thing to achieve. In practice, all of us take up tasks with different interests and aims and many tasks as a routine affair. So, a perfect accomplishments of all the tasks is practiced by anybody. So perfection is a task-wise accomplishment and this what we shall mean here.

Achieving perfection is neither easy nor convenient, but in-spite of the difficulties people strive to achieve it as it provides immense and unparalleled satisfaction to the achiever. Efforts to achieve perfection may cause some frustration, a lot of struggles, and sometime even failures but the prospective achiever does not get disheartened by these negative influences and has to keep on trying. Achieving perfection not only means improving the performance but also maintaining it at a high level of excellence. Therefore, it involves continuity of efforts, not only until the goal is achieved but also thereafter for ever.


Achieving perfection on a job requires a psychological bent of mind rather than physical labor for it. Five key points have been found to achieve it -

• Love your Job : Perfection could only be achieved if the performer loves the job and he/she is passionate about it. This passion provides fuel for focusing on the job, resilience to on-the-way setbacks, and perseverance for achieving the perfection. So, choose to achieve perfection on the job that you love to do, else leave it to your routines forgetting about achieving perfection. As aforesaid, nobody can achieve perfection on all his/her performances.
• Begin with the most difficult part of the job : Convenience-seeking people choose the easiest part of a job to begin with and on reaching the difficult parts, get disheartened and often leave the job half-way. Perfectionists, however, begin with the most difficult part of the job and so keep on enjoying their performances as the easier parts are reached. Since the person has the maximum energy and enthusiasm in the beginning, the most difficult part gets accomplished with ease. And this ease continues with diminishing energy and the difficulty of the job.
• Be an intensive performer : Intensity of attention in application of skills matter a lot in achieving perfection. For this, two psychological facts are to be noted - a person may have intense practice on a job for a maximum of 90 minutes at a time, and an intense practice may be had for a maximum of 4.5 hours a day. With these, a break is highly recommended when the performer feels exhausted of his energy for the job to rejuvenate him/herself, and the performing duration be scheduled for 4-5 hours a day only with fillers for the routine activities. 
• Get expert feedbacks with intervals : Precise feedback on the performance from experts of the field with reasonable intervals helps in improving the performance through adjustments in the working. However, too much of it dampens the spirit of achieving excellence and does not provide opportunity of introspection and self-improvement for the performer. 
• Ritualize the Job : Body clock puts some regularity in the performance. If a job is taken up daily at a specified time, the performance gets repeated without much of efforts.   

With these tips, practicing excellence becomes a routine affair for the performer needing not much of conscious efforts. However, in the beginning, consciousness of achieving perfection is essential.