Finish what you start. Care about what you are doing, and do it right. Although being conscientious is not as easy as slacking off, we feel better about ourselves when we do a good job.
Locals love to tell the story of the bridge to nowhere. In southwest Florida, engineers had designed one of the biggest bridges in the state. The bridge was so big that they had to build it by starting on both banks and building toward the center.
Trouble is, when they reached the middle, the two sides didn't meet. They were two feet apart. Millions upon millions of dollars, and thousands upon thousands of worker-hours, and the whole thing didn't work. You know what they did? They built a second new bridge.
It's an old saying, but it still applies. There are two ways to do something: take some time and do it right, or hurry the job and never finish.
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Research on adults reveals that a tendency to be disciplined, deliberate, and dutiful has an 1 8 percent positive effect on happiness.Furnham and Cheng 1997
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