—(hyperbole) by Interior Designer Daniel Kucan
What Kucan is referring to is the exuberance at the front end of any project that inevitably fades as you go through it. The front end is full of unlimited potential, and energy is high. It may be starting school, a race, a project, or even a new way of life.
The only guarantee is that the the excitement and potential of the start will invariably diminish. The excitement can give way to realizations of shortcomings; things become hard, problems arise, and it becomes far too easy to abandon something (or slap it together to technically finish it half-ass) rather than to see it through to its highest quality conclusion CORRECTLY.
They begin to view dropping out, quitting, or give up before they complete as easier. It in fact is easier, but not better. Some even do this as a defense mechanism against themselves. It's easier than improving or being critical of yourself. They view "just finishing" as an alternative to truly completing.
If school, races, projects, or life was easy, and it was always sunshine and cheer... with no need to examine your own shortcomings and improve them, everyone would be a graduate, marathon finalist, project-award-winner, and have a dream life.
Fact is life is a struggle. While starting something IS KEY (you can't even have the chance to win unless you start), it is finishing that is the most important.
