It's happened to me! Suffering "perfection syndrome"

Yes, so I'm about nearly 3 months into my WA membership - upgraded to Premium within the first week as I knew I would be benefitting from the extras available there.

That's fine, but since I got as far as Course 2, Lesson 5, I've somehow ground to a halt. For the last month it's fair to say I've done the best part of nothing as far as working on my website and building up the content on the r relevant pages I have so far.

And I feel a bit down about it. But I sometimes wonder if I place to much pressure upon myself or set my expectation levels too high in the beginning. I often feel I put myself under a bit of pressure or feel "guilty" if I slow down on a new venture or lose a bit of inspiration or become stuck for ideas or run out of creative things to say.

But surely this is normal?

As I was working through the Lessons, as I mentioned, I'm currently at Course 2, Lesson 5, I somehow in the middle of things decided to change the look of the site again and try experimenting with other themes and I also spent significant time on trying to create a different website title banner for the home page. I changed and messed around with things and eventually I've gone back to the first one I tried for now as I think I sickened myself a bit with trying to get things to look exactly right.

I often spend a long time working on some banner/advert/image/graphic with Photoshop to use on my website and I've seen the hours pass quite rapidly.

I have another website which is not anything connected to WA but I've had it for several years and I've always had this thing about getting everything on the site exactly the way I want it with regards to appearance... the visual thing. It's got to be right or I feel discontented with it. I'm very particular about building websites and I think I was experiencing the same "perfecting syndrome" that I tend to go through.

Before I know where I am, it's dinner time and I feel I've wasted the day achieving very little.

Am I just being too thorough and methodical at the moment? Should I just concentrate on getting my content finished and all relevant images up?

And then I start thinking of things such as: Oh, I haven't got any affiliate links up yet. I'll never get generating any income if I don't get these organised soon.

But then I tell myself I'm jumping the gun and as I work through the course these things will all fall into place.

So, I guess I'm just calling out to the community here to ask for some advice or for someone to say, Bev it will be fine, just take your time and follow the course step by step and it will all fall into place?

Does anyone else suffer from "perfection syndrome"?

Thanks for reading,

Bev