I have a problem (understatement of the year)... When it comes to projects I tend to get myself into a feedback loop of wanting to make sure everything is "right" or "perfect" before I move on. This often causes me to never start a project, lose interest part way, or just never finish anything. Good example is living with a half-finished bathroom renovation for 3 years. I finished it the week my wife and I moved out of the house, so that the renters we had taking over the place would have a complete bathroom.
Currently I am working on the interior of the Porsche. What it truly needs is a decent clean, a few small issues resolved, and the remaining RS carpet stuck down. That is it. Done.
Where my mind goes though is...
In order to do it "perfectly" I need to remove the chipping sound deadening, clean and scrape all the glue remnants off the floor, weld up a couple of holes in the floor, figure out an undercoat patch on the bottom of the car where I welded, paint the welds (which will make everything else look crappy, so paint the whole inside, put in new sound deadening, re-lay the half-assed carpet, replace all the rubber seals, address the tears in the seat....the list goes on and on.
So what I end up doing is nothing. It is as if I cannot get myself to do the thing it really needs, which is finish the carpet install. I get stuck in this never ending feedback loop of not being able to tackle it 100% right now, so I do nothing, and I drive it around with a half installed carpet kit and some old rubber floor mats over the bare metal in the front half of the car.
I don't have the time or the financial means to do anything perfect ever. I need to figure out how to live with "good enough" and just enjoy the damn thing instead of always planning for something and never actually doing it. How do you guys overcome this? Is "done" actually better than "perfect?" Will I get more enjoyment out of the car knowing that there are glue boogers left under the freshly installed carpet, but because there is carpet there I will be happier?
The following pictures show where I got the carpet install in 2013 when I sold the car. I bought the car back this summer, and apparently the guy who owned it felt the same way, or didn't want to take the time to finish the project...You can see the no-carpet-front with designer floor mats, haha.
What do you guys do to get over the need to make things perfect before just moving on?
