Life is too short.
I never believed that earlier when I had my own national catering directory site.
I'd been toying around with the site in Drupal 6, which was a cumbersome but reasonably powerful platform. I made everything perfect. People could search by state, their favorite dishes, price range, type of caterer, you name it.
But the cost was time. I must have spent two months fine-tuning the site. With one last addition...
... I made a four-line error message show up on the front page. I asked around on forums. No one knew or cared about the error. All that time meant nothing. That error message just sat there in the middle of all my work, taunting me.
On your way to success, don't wrangle with a little detail that will turn into a behemoth and derail you. If you feel like you're walking through barbed wire, turn around while you still have time and momentum in your hour or day to do something. If you have to, delete what you're working on, and let it go. Make simple things that express who you are and what you want to do.
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