Mountains and Valleys - Preserverance Pays Off

As I put the final touches on my project, I find myself in a rather reflective mood.  Maybe it's the Holiday as well, who knows.

This project has had mountains and valleys for me, not hills, mountains!  It seems like every time I figured something out (a valley) a big, old, ugly mountain loomed in the distance.  For example, once I figured out how to publish my projects (valley), they were too large to fit on a reasonable number of discs (mountain).  Found a disc that would work (valley) then the darn things wouldn't work on the proprietary system in our office (mountain).  Burn discs as DVDs (valley), didn't work (mountain), burn again and it magically works (valley).  It's been this way through the entire project, step by step.

So, I'm trying to figure out what that all means.  Did I have a significant learning curve when I started this venture.  Sure did.  Sort of like those crazy folks who run a hundred miles up and down a mountain.  We all have our own sort of marathons, don't we?  Did I have to select such a large project?  Not really, but I have this over active achievement motive that I failed to manage.  I can justify it with statements like, "The design warranted blending both audio and video to enhance the learners ability to comprehend and, thus apply, the subject matter".  But, in all honesty, I really did not have to bite off a project with multiple segments (I think I remember mentioning ego in an earlier post . . .).  Hindsight is twenty/twenty.

All that being said, I'm very happy with the final product.  And, I'm very happy that the product is "final"!