The issue isn’t whether or not being a perfectionist is good or bad: it’s what you decide to be perfectionist about!  Or put it another way: If you’ve always been a perfectionist, go for it!  Just remember, you need to rise to the challenge and be a perfect perfectionist!  We don’t want any imperfect perfectionism! What is a perfect perfectionist?  Someone who knows when to apply 25% perfection, when 50%, when 75% and when the full, all-out 100%!

Are you still looking for that one thing that will make you happy, trying to finally identify the right career path for you? Are you jealous when someone tells you "I've known what I want to be since I was twelve!"?   Do your friends and family say to you, in slightly anxious tones, "I just hope you find whatever it is that makes you happy and do it!"

Renaissance Souls are quite capable of bringing a passionate attention to a variety of interests, often simultaneously. My client Carlie is both a professional clown who entertains children and a Holocaust educator who gives talks on the lessons of Auschwitz. Another, Cindy, spends part of her time showing visitors from France the hidden joys of Boston and the rest of her time on importing antique china from England for sale to American collectors.

Author, speaker and workshop leader Margaret Lobenstine writes in her book The Renaissance Soul about people - often gifted and talented - “whose number one career choice is ‘Please don’t make me choose!’ and whose underlying passion is to constantly redefine our passions."