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The curse of perfectionism and how to solve it – with Chris Ward
Clip: Perfectionism and relationships
Are you a perfectionist? Do you find that everything you take on, you want to do absolutely perfectly, to be better than everybody else, and to make sure that you don’t get a single thing wrong in the process?
Now this might sound like a positive quality and it does have some advantages, but it also has some great costs to our health, and to our relationships.
Chris Ward is the author of the new book ‘Less Perfect, More Happy. And here we have an in depth conversation about what perfectionism is, why it develops, what you can do about it, and the enormous cost it can have if you don’t get a handle on it.
Chris’s own perfectionism has driven him to be very successful. He was creative director of comic relief, he’s raised over 500 million pounds for charities all over the world has been involved along with Richard Curtis, the famous film director, with the launch of the United Nations global goals. For that campaign, he managed to arrange the sending of over 3 billion text messages in order to spread the word.
Chris is also a record breaking cyclist, a best selling author, and a successful entrepreneur whose perfectionism at times has nearly destroyed his life.
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John
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Chris’ Links
- Website: http://bluedotagency.com/
- Book Title: Less Perfect, More Happy in Amazon
Chris’ Bio
Chris Ward is a highly regarded & successful business & social entrepreneur – most recently Director of two of the world’s biggest cause-related organizations/campaigns: Comic Relief and 1GOAL (the legacy of the FIFA World Cup). He also sat on the social legacy board of the London 2012 Olympics. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisatcoffice
Commercially, Chris worked at the highest level with many of the World’s leading commercial brands such as AT&T, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Harper Collins, Stella Artois, BBC, Adidas, Barclays Bank, C4, Nokia, Evian, Carlsberg, Sony PlayStation, etc. He was responsible for building the successful phenomenon of Friendsreunited.co.uk to 12m UK members. http://www.prweek.com/news/185026/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH
For non-profits, Chris was Creative Communications Director at Comic Relief, created the 10 million-selling 3 red noses and oversaw the broadcast, creative and digital output for the, £82m generating, UK telethon, Red Nose Day 09. At 1GOAL he created a partnership with the global mobile industry around the 2010 World Cup http://www.gsm.org/1goal/ that reached over 1.6bn consumers, and resulted in Governments committing a further £400m to achieving Education For All.
He has worked with many Presidents, Prime Ministers & global non-profit organisations such as The Gates Foundation, White Ribbon Alliance, Fairtrade, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Oxfam, Save The Children, Facebook Causes, Twitter For Non-profits and directly with key individuals such as Queen Rania of Jordan. Desmond TuTu, Sepp Blatter, Jack Dorsey, Ban Ki-Moon, President Zuma etc.
Out of office, Chris has completed 10 international marathons & the 3 hardest mtn bike races in the world – across The Rockies, Alps & South Africa. He is married with 4 children & lives in West London.
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