If you are working small and rushing, your work will not look as good as it should. Every imperfection, every skipped step, every rushed brush stroke will show. You will have to learn to go slower and to allow yourself to take the time to do each step of a project in its turn. Patience goes from being a hindrance to a hard earned attribute and this, in turn, will aid your long term sustainability.
It is much better to work for 15 or 20 minutes a day than it is to try and do 2 or 3 hours in a day. Not only will your work be better, but you will not burn out as fast. This is true of almost anything, especially where skill-building is concerned. In any project I work on, I may not make giant leaps each day, but through small, steady steps I can move forward and retain what I learn. This was another of my major problems in the beginning, I would work in huge spurts and try to remember everything when I came back to a project. While I still forget things, it isn’t nearly as often as it used to be.
Patience also helps with decision making. When you slow down and take the time to really look at what you are doing, you make better decisions. You handle the materials better, you don’t over-blush your makeup, and you measure your doorways and cut your wood more accurately. This ability to slow down and make thoughtful decisions helps in so many ways and really contributes to sustainability because it reduces the frustration factor.
When you can approach a project calmly and make thoughtful changes without getting upset, it is much easier to sustain long term work.
