For those of you who don't know, I'm a carpet installer by day, writer by night. The other day I had a customer really impressed with me because I didn't settle for "good enough." It wasn't really that big of deal, There was one spot in the carpet that I didn't get tucked in under the wall trim quite as well as I should have. I didn't notice this minor imperfection until I started vacuuming, (which is one of the reasons I always vacuum--it lets me catch little slips like that.) Anyway I had to go back out to the truck to get a tool I'd already put away to fix this small mistake. The home owner said, "oh don't bother, I've got a dresser that goes there and no one will ever see it. It's good enough." That lady gave me every excuse to pack up my tools and call the job done. I couldn't do it. I drive by that house all the time, I don't want to look at it and know that I could have done it better. That one more minute's work would save me several hours of sleepless nights. (ok that might be a bit of an exaggeration, I might have lost a little sleep over it, but probably not several hours.) The point is, If you're not going to do the best job that you can, how can you expect to be happy with your work?