I'm responsible for the cleanliness of this hand towel

Keep busy.

As a well-educated and high performing individual, start having too much time to achieve too little and almost entirely irrelevant things will start to bother you.

Some examples, any ring a bell?
"Who has used a green towel when we are currently on the navy towel rotation? My pairs now don't match!"
"Oh no! The recycling truck is here and I have yet to sort through the Sunday paper. I can't deal with this level of inefficiency"
"Is my house big enough, should I maybe have a downstairs toilet?"
"(To 4 month old) Why aren't you drinking your milk? You should have drunk 6 ounces."
"My work means that I can't do nursery drop off or pick up unfortunately"
"Sorry, I can't come to your birthday party, I have an early morning training ride tomorrow."

The fact is that, whether leading a multi-million refinancing, entering your efforts in a local baking competition or introducing your baby to solid food, you will judge yourself against the highest possible standard. Your skills of self-evaluation have been so finely honed during your studies and working life that they simply can't be turned on and off based on the relative life importance of the task.

It of course follows that old adage: "If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well." Here I challenge this saying with, "If you are doing a job that well, then you simply don't have enough to do."

An obsession with perfection in one particular aspect of your life - your house size, your baby's wardrobe, how people see you at work, is a glaring sign that you are not optimising your Life Scorecard. Chose some additional components, or make a concerted effort to spend more time on one you already have.

Far from catapulting you to greatness, the search for perfection in too small a number of Life Scorecard components could be an inhibitor to your overall life satisfaction level. Searching for perfection across a varied number of components? Well, that's also known as 'having it all', the pancea of life satisfaction that also comes with some serious side effects for you and those around you.  More on this another time.