Finishing Well

I think we all have been there at one time or another. The project for whatever reason has gone on three times longer than you thought it would, and quite frankly you are sick of it. You don't want to do it anymore, but you have to. You've made promises and you are stuck with getting it completed. Your first thought is to cut corners. You don't need to sand everything so completely, you don't need to put on that extra coat of varnish. Nobody would notice.

Don't do it. There are certain things in this world like woodworking and jobs where finishing well is just as important as starting off well. It says more about your character than just about anything else. What you hold yourself to, your standards, come into play in those times. The true measure of a person is not what he does when he is forced to. It's what he chooses to do when the opposite would be easy and acceptable.

So go ahead and do it right the first time. If you don't, you will regret it. Perhaps not today or tomorrow, but soon and everytime you see your project after that until you fix it.