Name: Unlimited
Brand: Storytel
SKU: 7777
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Willard Mario Nixon

The work is excellent. The results are impressive. So why does everything still feel like it's never quite finished?

High performers with perfectionist patterns often receive praise for their thoroughness, attention to detail, and uncompromising standards. They become the person everyone trusts to catch the error, review the document, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. But behind that reputation is an exhausting reality: the three-hour email that should have taken ten minutes, the delegated task that got taken back and redone at midnight, the team that has stopped offering honest feedback because the response is always defensiveness or over-correction.

What Workplace Perfectionism Actually Costs

This workbook addresses the specific patterns that Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) traits create in professional settings. Unlike general productivity advice or vague encouragement to "let go," every chapter delivers concrete tools grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy research. The approach is direct: identify the pattern, understand the mechanism driving it, interrupt the behavior with structured experiments, and record what actually happens when the feared outcome fails to materialize.

A System, Not a Lecture

Each chapter follows a consistent architecture. First, recognize the pattern through self-assessment and workplace-specific examples. Then, reframe the underlying beliefs using CBT-informed cognitive restructuring. Next, rehearse new behaviors through scripts, checklists, and experiments designed for immediate use. Finally, record outcomes in worksheets that build an evidence base against the predictions your anxiety generates.

Practical Tools for Monday Morning

The workbook includes ready-to-use scripts for delegation conversations, meeting participation, feedback delivery and reception, boundary-setting, and conflict repair. A complete 30-day behavioral experiment plan provides one structured experiment per day, graduated from low-risk awareness exercises to high-challenge integration tasks. Over 20 worksheets support tracking, reflection, and sustained practice.

For the Professional Who Has Been Called "Intense"

The reader who benefits most from this workbook has likely heard some version of the following: too detail-oriented, too rigid, too controlling, impossible to please. They may have noticed that colleagues route around them rather than through them. They may work 55 hours a week while their peers work 40 and produce comparable results. They may have lost sleep, health, or relationships to standards that feel non-negotiable but have never been examined.

This is not a book about lowering standards. It is a book about stopping the payment of those standards with burnout, broken trust, and stalled careers. The goal is not less excellence. The goal is excellence that does not require suffering as its price.

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OCPD at Work: A Practical Workbook for Perfectionism, Control, Burnout, and Delegation—With Scripts, Checklists, and 30-Day Experiments

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