More than a few years ago, Brooks Jensen sent me a pdf file of a project with photographs made during our trip to the Long Beach Peninsula. He proclaimed the photographs as the best ever and predicted a fabulous project resulting from these photographs.
He completed the project and it was as fabulous as he predicted. Now here’s the interesting part. He didn’t have much fun completing the project. It was basically just a bunch of grunt work to get it done. He was kind of bummed out about that, but I know that’s what happens. I blogged about that before.
There comes a point in every project where you reach maximum satisfaction, have that “Aha!” moment, or know what you have is a winner. From that point on, the project is nothing but working the details to get the job finished to the level of perfection you know it deserves. Working out the details is just that – work. And work is not fun. Sometimes that moment of insight comes early in the project and it’s a long, tough slog to the finish. Other times it comes at the end and the travail is minimized.
It always happens and I am happy that other folks have the same experience I do when completing a project.
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