Status update: My wife and daughter are out of town for two days so I’m going to surprise her and re paint our bedroom (which is long overdue) on my day off. But for me that’s not just painting. Whoever painted previously did a really shitty job so I have to prep the room for about 3-4 hours and then repaint. That’s just how I’m wired.

Thought experiment:

Imagine a world where everyone had an internal desire to try their best to do everything that they do really well.

In that world I’d be almost finished repainting my bedroom 😆.

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One of the Four Agreements, always do your best.

I spent 6 months "repainting a bedroom" once.

It also went from 1 outlet to 2 on each wall, got a handmade closet builtin, went from pole lamps (yes a single outlet and no lighting when I started) to ceiling recessed lightning, got a ceiling fan, and LED lit crown moulding.

I'll never finish my house the way I work. 1 perfect room added every few years though.

Always 💯

But as a result I work pretty slow, and I can't work on a lot of things at once.

Just about anyone can slap some paint on a wall but very few people can do it well . The preparation is more important than the actual paint