might as well go all the way if you are halfway there..

Ever since  i got my car about a decade ago, wiping my car and keeping it gleaming had become a part of my daily to-do. Actually those close to me call it my must-do because no matter how late i get back from work i'd still clean my car before i head to bed.


Call it OBD it you may but i simply care for my car above and beyond thd level of an average joe and it's really a matter of preference when it comes to giving my car that bit more detail of attention.


Ok, anyway, this post isn't about my car although it does make reference to me and my car. Well, for the past 5 weeks or so, I have been getting back from work at obscene hours. I am talking about leaving the office at 2am, 2.30am, 3am sort of crazy times. I think that works out to about 18 working hours a day on average. Believe you me, it's not a very nice way to spend your day.

Despite coming back home in the wee hours of the morning, I'd still wipe my car. When I mean wipe my car, that'd be the top, the bottom, the wheels and then the interior. Since I don't own a large, luxury car or a large reasonably priced car, I only need about 30 minutes in all to wipe my car down.

There some days where I took a step back and thought, "Most people are only going to look at the top and the wheels, so maybe I can skip wiping the bottom and get me a bit more sleep time.". Then, I took another step back and realised that if I have already expended my energy on the top and the wheels (wheels typically take a bit more time due to the patterns on the rim and the more dirt it picks up), I might as well just spend the next few minutes doing the bottom and I'd eventually get a gleaming car from top to toe or rather, "roof to wheels".

All so often we think of doing something and by the time we finally get started on it, we somehow lose steam and shy away from completion. But if we really sit down and gave it some thought, it doesn't make sense because you would expended quite a fair bit of time, energy and in some cases money simply to get you halfway day only for you to abandon ship. Is it not then wasteful to a very large extent?

I like to use my car as an example because it's easy to explain. Every night when I am finally done wiping the car, I can take a step back and just look at the gleam. It puts a smile on my face and ends my bad day at work. Had I just stopped at the top and the wheels, I'd still see the gleam on my car but I know, in the back of my head, I'd be telling myself, "Hmmmmm.... but you didn't do the bottome.....". It's not really an honest piece of satisfaction, if you know what I mean.

So the point I am trying to bring across is that, if you have already committed to something and you might as well go all the way and see to the finish line if you are halfway there, irrespective of the results. At least you tried, you know you tried and that's more than enough a reason to give yourself (I mean YOU) credit and be proud!