Perfection

 You were born perfect, your existence is perfect, your failures are perfect, your successes are perfect, your joys are perfect, your traumas are perfect, everything you do is what you do for the reason you do it.

My point is, the filter of judgment you place on yourself is created by you and only you. Perfectionism is only useful for the generation of specific results, and that perfectionism should only be applied to the set of results you desire.

Creating a filter for perfectionism should consist of reflecting on whether or not that perfectionism has any useful role in bleeding over into other aspects of your life. For example, you can be an expert martial artist and still allow yourself at times to sleep in, eat dessert, and self soothe without judging your own actions as weaknesses.

Imagine a Tibetan Rinpoche taking a time out from hours of mantra to smoke a cigarette while still in full non-judgmental Conscious Awareness. The only one judging him is himself, and when he doesn't do that, the only ones judging him are those with unforgiving expectations of what to expect from authority.

When you are your own authority, pretend that you already have an inner Rinpoche who understands that all existence is perfect as-is with all its imperfections, and that the cycle of birth and death, filth and chaos in nature creates the diversity and vista of nature that we call natural beauty and perfection.

At that point, the remaining work that needs to be done is only about generating a result in a particular practice for the good of humankind, and generating anything through yourself needs that filter to avoid suffering from self judgment.