Everyone should always strive to do their best, but when striving to do better crosses the line into trying to be perfect, the pressure could be crushing to one’s spirit and destroy their business. It seems like being a perfectionist should decrease stress, make your business boom, and create a loyal clientele, but it can have the opposite effect in the long term. It’s also important to note the damaging effects it could have on you, your coworkers, and your business.

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Perfectionism is the tendency to demand from others or oneself an extremely high or flawless level of performance, in excess of what is required by the situation. In layman’s terms, it means you expect you and everyone around you to be flawless all of the time in every situation. If that sounds impossible, that’s because it is. Perfectionism is not the same as simply striving for excellence. In many cases, a need for perfection in one’s professional or personal life stems from deeper issues, and perfectionism is associated with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health problems.

Lora Condon is an international award-winning aesthetician, guest on Dr. Oz, author of Spa Wars, and a beauty consumer advocate known as “The Beauty Buster.” Condon was named InStyle Magazine’s “Best Eyebrow Shaper in New Jersey” and has worked with Ladies’ Home Journal, The New York Times, Success Magazine, Good Morning America, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, and Téa Leoni. Condon was featured in videos by Cosmo, Refinery29, Beauty Insider, and Entertainment Tonight. Beauty Buster Organic Skin Care was created to target specific skin conditions and contains luxury lip treatments with olive oil from Condon’s great grandfather’s town in Italy.