Follow-through and perfectionism

When one makes a goal, one should do their best to achieve said goal.

There's this idea of follow-through with this. A goal is a projection and in some ways, a hope.

"I will run a marathon."
"I will lose weight."
"I will stop playing Tetris Battle once the energy bar runs out."

To follow through with what one sets out to do (or hopes to accomplish) is probably the most important part of goal setting (the most obvious, yet the least acknowledged, perhaps?).

This is where I fall apart. I'm so good at setting goals and setting up plans to achieve said goals, and then I don't follow through.

I'm bad at following up with people too.

"Did you remember to...?"
"Are you going to...?"
"I'll call you back when I get home." (and then I don't)

I usually attribute it to distractions and forgetfulness and I wonder if there's something else to it. Perhaps I can fall back on the ol' excuse of my self-diagnosed mild ADHD.

Perhaps it has something to do with being a perfectionist.

The steps I set out to do have not perfectly manifested in the way that was planned and thus, I cannot move on to the final step of the process and follow through with/achieve the goal I set out to do.

I wonder if being a discouraged perfectionist (term taken from Kevin Lemans' The Birth Order Book, which I found to be an interesting read) has anything to do with it.

그냥 대충하고 넘어가 (Just half-ass it and get it done and over it) becomes a mantra for me when I don't have time but it grates against my standards for the quality of work I hold myself to.

There's never enough time in the world to do all the things we want.

그냥 대충하고 넘어갈까?
(Should I just half-ass it and get it done and over with?)