What would you do if you were guaranteed total and utter success at whatever you put your hands to? If everything you cared to do , you were guaranteed would happen immediately.
There was a Twilight Zone episode that was like this. A criminal died and he thought he went to heaven because he was playing pool and no matter what he did the balls went in the pocket. He tried to not get them in but they went in anyway. Soon he realized that he was in Hell.
I was pondering that this morning. You know that feeling that washes over you when you work all day to get the yard clean and then you survey the progress and it feels so good. Or you work out to the point of utter exhaustion and then stop and lay on the mat and just relax. You know how you earned that
Or you are really really hungry and you take a bite of something delicious and it is the most wonderful experience.
You can’t even feel the good unless you have something to compare it to.
My sister did a remodel of a teachers lounge recently. She boldly got the idea to redo it and even though she had no experience in redoing a room she launched out. She painstakingly went through craigslist ads and looked at many many things before she settled on the perfect countertops at the perfect price. Then she agonized over every other aspect of the room careful collecting all the parts till one weekend she organized lots of volunteers to tear the old room apart and build new cabinets and install new appliances and furniture and curtains and decor , in a three day weekend. Her carpenter husband was going to help but he had to work. One thing after another happened and they were beset on all sides with volunteers being under emotional pain(one volunteer had his mother die that very day) yet they persevered and Monday Morning it was done and beautiful. She called me the next morning to tell me she never was so happy at the outcome and the people who would use it were so thrilled.
I know she felt high for a week after that.
All life is like childbirth. the Agony and the Ecstasy.
The best part of the journey is the first 5 minutes after you finish the vision. The first five minutes after you are basking in the glory and shock that it actually worked out.