Process of Personal Change

#7 You Can't Polish Before You Build


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Episode7; The paper I picked from my Jar of Thoughts is; " You Can't Polist Before You Build":  Another slap on my face. Yes that is exactly what I've always try to do. I like seeing results, getting feedbacks. They are the fun part. 

But, Without taking time and putting the effort into building whatever it is that I desire to have, polishing won't work. It is tempting to skip one or two steps because there is a fee-ling of urgency and as time is running out, however, the best results and the growing sense of joy and satisfaction is putting the work into building it. 

Easier than doing, the polishing part is the getting the feedback. Whilst we are building it, it is hard to put the finger on the outcome, the results. We can feel it, we can anticipate it, we can sense it but nevertheless it is not the reality yet. Naturally we want to skip to the feed back part. There comes the polishing before it is completed. 

Here, I say, stop... Life is too valuable to waste it after sniffing the most amazing food but not yet tasting any of it. 

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Process of Personal ChangeBy Ayse