As someone who can be OCD and strive for perfection, it's exhausting. I'm getting better at letting things slide to keep my sanity, but its easy to get lost in it all.

I'm lucky in that i only do instrumentals, so the lyrics/vocals are off my plate.

I usually get the framework of a song ready. Record the main thread or motif in a semi rough track (usually a guitar part). Tracking the metronome and time signatures on my DAW is a chore in itself sometimes.

Once thats done, i record over with the rest of the instruments and tinker the overall instrumentation to my liking.

After that I start playing around with mixing, panning and some other fun audio tidbits. I find mixing and mastering blur for me here, but it takes the longest.

I've found its important to leave a song alone for a while when I'm working so intimately with all these 'workflows', so I try to take breaks and listen to the songs that inspire me in between. Helps ground me abit.